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Scallop Soup

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Tarragon and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,137 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Scallop Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a pot, combine water, milk, cloves, peppercorns, bay leaves, tarragon, and celery. Simmer for 1 hour.

  2. In a pan, melt butter and fry onion rings and garlic until golden.

  3. Strain the soup through a wire sieve.

  4. Chop scallops and add to the strained soup along with salt, pepper, and grated lemon peel.

  5. Serve hot with fried bread cut into small dice.

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. Tarragon + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,137 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Tarragon + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together456 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Celery + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,467 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, tarragon, celery, butter, scallop, pepper, lemon):

  1. Parsleyfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Fennelfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, tarragon, celery, butter, scallop, pepper, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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