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Cood Family Soup

A hearty soup made with beef, bacon, cabbage, potatoes, rice, carrots, and turnip.

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 ↓

Cood Family Soup

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the soup base

  1. Fry the beef, bacon, onions, and chopped cabbage in a large stew pan.

  2. Add the potatoes, rice, carrots, turnip, salt, and pepper.

  3. Pour in 2 quarts of water and set the pan over low heat.

  4. Skim the surface and gradually add 2 more quarts of water.

Simmer and finish

  1. Remove the potatoes when cooked and mash them.

  2. After 3 hours, take out the meat and let the soup simmer for another hour.

  3. Strain the soup and thicken it with the mashed potatoes.

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. Cabbage + turniptop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together897 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

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

  4. Potato + carrottop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,107 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

What each ingredient does

Beef
Provides rich meaty flavor as it simmers slowly in the broth.
Potatoes
Mashed potatoes thicken the soup and add body.
Rice
Adds starch that helps give the soup body as it cooks.
Bacon
Its fat and smoky savoriness season the broth from the start.

The step that matters

Skim the surface. Skimming removes foam and fat that rise during simmering, keeping the broth clear and less greasy.

Swap the cabbage

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, onion, potato, rice, carrot, turnip, pepper. 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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