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Veal Soup

A hearty soup made with veal, pork, onion, red pepper, carrots, turnips, potato, optional rice or toasted bread, thickened with flour.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 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 ↓

Veal Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Put the veal and pork in a pot with water and bring to a boil, about 2 to 2.5 hours before serving.

  2. Add the onion and red pepper.

  3. If using rice, add it with the meat.

  4. About 45 minutes before serving, add the carrots and turnips.

  5. After 15-20 minutes, add the sliced potato and salt to taste.

  6. If not using dumplings, toast slices of bread and add them to the soup.

  7. Thicken the soup with flour as 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. Carrot + turniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,002 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Onion + potatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

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

  3. Carrot + potatotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,107 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  4. Onion + turniptop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,585 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Pork + potatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,668 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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

What each ingredient does

Veal
Provides the main meat flavour and body to the broth as it simmers.
Pork
Adds richer meat flavour and some fat to the broth during long simmering.
Flour
Thickens the soup's liquid when stirred in, giving it a fuller texture.

Swap the turnip

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, pork, onion, pepper, carrot, potato, rice):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Tomatofits about as well
  3. Turnipthe original
  4. Leekfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, pork, onion, pepper, carrot, potato, rice. 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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