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Pumpkin Soup

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Pumpkin Soup

Why it works: Rice and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,433 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Pumpkin Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the pumpkin into good-sized pieces.

  2. Cover the pumpkin with water in a pot.

  3. Add coarse sea salt and black pepper to taste.

  4. Boil until the pumpkin is soft.

  5. Add rice or tapioca and boil until cooked.

  6. Optionally, stir in fried onion before serving.

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. Rice + oniontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,433 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + ricetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,379 recipes

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

  4. Pumpkin + ricetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together338 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  5. Pumpkin + oniontop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,889 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the onion

The recipe marks onion as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pumpkin, pepper, rice):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Cucumberfits better
  3. Okrafits better
  4. Onionthe original

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

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