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Orange Soup

A chilled orange juice soup thickened with arrowroot and topped with unsweetened whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and arrowroot work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 118 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Orange Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Thicken the orange juice with arrowroot.

  2. Use 1 heaping teaspoon of arrowroot for every 2 cups of orange juice.

  3. Serve very cold with a dab of unsweetened whipped cream in each glass.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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.

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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.

  1. Orange + arrowroottop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Arrowroot + creamtop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together490 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

  3. Orange + creamtop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,170 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Orange juice
Provides the main liquid, flavour and sweetness of the soup.
Arrowroot
Thickens the juice into a smooth, glossy soup as it is heated.

The step that matters

Thicken the orange juice with arrowroot. Arrowroot thickens only when the juice is heated and then cooled to set, and too much can make the soup gluey. Measure carefully and stir it into cold juice first to avoid lumps.

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (arrowroot, cream):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Limefits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against arrowroot, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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