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Rice-macaroni Soup

A soup made with rice, macaroni, onion, and water, seasoned with salt and parsley, optionally flavored with ketchup or peanut butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and parsley are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 25,843 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Rice-macaroni Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil rice, onion, broken macaroni, and oil in water for 45 minutes.

  2. Add salt and parsley, and boil for a few more minutes.

  3. Stir in ketchup or peanut butter for flavor, if desired.

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. Onion + parsleytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Rice + oniontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,433 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Rice + parsleytop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,762 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Onion + ketchuptop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,997 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Parsley + ketchuptop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together990 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Softens as it simmers, thickening the soup and adding body.
Broken macaroni
Cooks into the broth, adding starch and a tender, bulky texture.
Onion
Softens during simmering, adding savory sweetness to the broth.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, onion, ketchup):

  1. Celeryfits better
  2. Garlicfits better
  3. Turmericfits better
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, onion, ketchup. 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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