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Julienne Soup

A clear soup stock with cooked green peas, diced carrot, diced turnip, and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 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 ↓

Julienne Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a pot, heat the clear soup stock.

  2. Add the cooked green peas, diced carrot, and diced turnip.

  3. Cook until the vegetables are soft, seasoning with salt 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. Carrot + turniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,002 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Peas + carrottop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,994 recipes

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

  3. Peas + turniptop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,350 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

Clear soup stock
Forms the liquid base that carries the flavor of the whole soup.
Green peas
Add a soft texture and a sweet, fresh vegetable flavor.
Carrot
Adds body, tender texture, and gentle sweetness as it softens.
Turnip
Contributes a mildly earthy flavor and tender texture when cooked.

The step that matters

Cook until the vegetables are soft, seasoning with salt to taste.. Diced vegetables need enough time simmering in the stock to soften fully and release their sweetness. Salt is added during cooking, so tasting near the end helps prevent over-seasoning, since the stock may already be salty.

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, turnip):

  1. Lentilsfits better
  2. Beansfits better
  3. Chestnutfits better
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, turnip. 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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