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Veal Soup

A soup made with veal stock, celery, spaghetti, and cream or milk and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Celery and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,863 recipes. Both carry gamma-decalactone, which smells peach, creamy. The science ↓

Veal Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cook the spaghetti in 1 quart of water until tender.

  2. Strain the veal stock into the pot with the spaghetti.

  3. Add the bunch of celery and boil for about 5 minutes.

  4. Remove the celery, then stir in the cream (or milk and butter) and season to taste.

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. Celery + creamtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,863 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  2. Veal + celerytop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,336 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Veal + creamtop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,202 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

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

What each ingredient does

Veal stock
Provides the main savory meat flavor and body of the soup.
Spaghetti
Adds starch and bulk, softening as it cooks in the soup base.
Cream
Adds richness and a smooth, velvety texture to the finished soup.

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, cream):

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Macefits about as well
  3. Celerythe original
  4. Tarragonfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, cream. 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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