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Cold Beep Bone, Pieces Op Steak, Etc

A cold soup made from beef bone, steak pieces, vegetables, and toast.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and turnip match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,002 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Cold Beep Bone, Pieces Op Steak, Etc

Ingredients

Directions

Make the soup

  1. In a large pot, combine water, carrots, turnips, onions, cloves, pepper, salt, and tomatoes.

  2. Boil gently for 3-4 hours.

  3. Strain the soup back into the pot.

Thicken and serve

  1. Mix flour with a little water and stir it into the soup.

  2. Boil for an additional 10 minutes.

  3. Add the pieces of toast just before serving.

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.

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.

  1. Carrot + turniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,002 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Carrot + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,873 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  4. Turnip + oniontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,585 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Carrot + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,555 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

What each ingredient does

Flour
Thickens the soup as it boils, giving it a slightly heavier body.
Carrots
Add sweetness and body to the broth during the long simmer.
Onions
Build savory depth and aroma as they soften into the broth.
Turnips
Contribute mild sweetness and soft texture after prolonged gentle boiling.
Tomatoes
Add acidity and brightness that balance the savory broth.

The step that matters

Stirring the flour mixture into the soup. Flour added directly to hot liquid can clump into lumps. Mixing it first with a little cold water to a smooth slurry lets the starch disperse evenly before it thickens the soup.

Swap the tomato

The recipe marks tomato as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, turnip, onion, clove, pepper, flour):

  1. Parsnipfits better
  2. Leekfits better
  3. Okrafits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, turnip, onion, clove, pepper, flour. 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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