Name: Chicken Tapioca Soup
Ingredients: Chicken; Tapioca; Croutons; Radishes; Celery

Why it works: Radish and celery work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 101 recipes. Both carry 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol, which smells clove, smoky. The science ↓

Chicken Tapioca Soup

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the chicken by boiling it until cooked through.
Remove the chicken and shred it into pieces.
In the same broth, add tapioca and cook until translucent.
Serve the soup hot, garnished with croutons, radishes, and celery.

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.

Radish + celerytop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together101 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).
Chicken + celerytop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together5,375 recipes

Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).
Chicken + radishtop 27% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together39 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).