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Jubilee Broth

A hearty beef broth with barley, tomatoes, onions, cloves, savory, and celery tops.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and celery are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,377 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Jubilee Broth

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the base

  1. Mince the beef twice and place it in a large pot.

  2. Pour in the cold water, stir well, and let it stand in a cool place for 1.5 hours.

Simmer and strain

  1. Add the onion, canned tomatoes, pearl barley, cloves, savory, celery tops, and spices.

  2. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 1 hour.

  3. Boil hard for 10 minutes, then strain through a fine strainer.

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.

Explore the science

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. Tomato + celerytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,377 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Clove + celerytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,668 recipes

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

  3. Barley + celerytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together571 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  4. Beef + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,092 recipes

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

  5. Beef + barleytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together458 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

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

What each ingredient does

Beef
Provides the main body and savory meaty flavor of the broth.
Pearl barley
Thickens the soup slightly as its starch releases during simmering and adds chewy texture.
Canned tomatoes
Add acidity and depth of flavor to the broth.
Onion
Adds aromatic sweetness and savory base flavor as it cooks.

The step that matters

Boil hard for 10 minutes, then strain through a fine strainer.. A brief hard boil after simmering helps the broth reach a clearer, fuller flavor before straining out solids. Straining through a fine strainer removes small particles of meat, barley and aromatics, leaving a smoother, clearer soup.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, onion, tomato, barley, celery):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Garlicfits better
  3. Cuminfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, onion, tomato, barley, celery. 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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