Why it works: Clove and marjoram match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,075 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓
Veal Soup
Ingredients
Directions
Boil the knuckle of veal with sliced onions until the meat falls from the bone.
Remove the bones and add sliced potatoes to the meat and broth.
Season with pepper, salt, cloves, marjoram, and coriander.
Make dumplings by mixing biscuit dough with an egg, then roll into balls or cut into squares.
Add chopped hard-boiled eggs to the soup before serving.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
Explore the science
The flavor team
The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.
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Clove + marjoramtop 2% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together1,075 recipes
Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).
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Pepper + marjoramtop 3% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together2,609 recipes
Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).
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Onion + potatotop 3% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together9,023 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
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Marjoram + coriandertop 4% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together54 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
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Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together17,451 recipes
Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Swap the onion
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, potato, pepper, clove, marjoram, coriander, egg):
- Carrotfits better
- Capsicumfits better
- Spinachfits better
- Onionthe original
Fit is the average pairing score against veal, potato, pepper, clove, marjoram, coriander, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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