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Asparagus Soup, with Green Peas

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Peas and asparagus match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 808 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Asparagus Soup, with Green Peas

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare a root soup and strain it.

  2. Boil 1 pint of green peas in the strained soup.

  3. Cut asparagus into 3-inch pieces and blanch in boiling water.

  4. Transfer blanched asparagus to cold water, then drain and tie in small bunches.

  5. Split the tops of the asparagus and boil them with the peas.

  6. Make a porridge from the peas and asparagus, then mix it with the root soup.

  7. Garnish the soup with the asparagus.

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. Peas + asparagustop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together808 recipes

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

  2. Asparagus + meattop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together142 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Peas + meattop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together573 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (asparagus, meat):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against asparagus, meat. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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