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Flemish Soup

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Flemish Soup

Why it works: Lamb and rabbit share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 51 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Flemish Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the lamb until tender.

  2. Fry the loin of lamb until golden.

  3. Prepare spinach by washing and cooking until wilted.

  4. Make a soup with fowl and mushrooms.

  5. Lard the pork and glaze it.

  6. Prepare Sofrel sauce to serve with pork.

  7. Roast the goose until cooked through.

  8. Make a pie with pigeons.

  9. Prepare sweetbreads by larding and glazing them.

  10. Cook the fricassee of rabbits with onions.

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. Lamb + rabbittop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together51 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Spinach + mushroomtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together778 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  3. Pork + rabbittop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together832 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Lamb + porktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together623 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. Mushroom + porktop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,875 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-propylphenol (allspice, anise).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lamb, spinach, mushroom, pork, sauce, rabbit):

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lamb, spinach, mushroom, pork, sauce, rabbit. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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