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Okra Soup with Beef

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Corn and lima beans work together. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 222 recipes. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Okra Soup with Beef

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the soup according to the recipe for okra soup with crabs, substituting beef for veal and ham.

  2. Remove the beef from the soup before serving.

  3. If desired, add fried oysters just before serving.

  4. If green corn is available, add it along with Lima beans 30 minutes before the soup is done.

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. Corn + lima beanstop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together222 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Beef + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,971 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Corn + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,324 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Beef + corntop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,028 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Beef + lima beanstop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together82 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

Swap the lima beans

The recipe marks lima beans as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, oyster, corn, pepper):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Sesamefits about as well
  3. Lima beansthe original
  4. Peanutfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, oyster, corn, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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