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Oyster Soup

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Olive and cranberry match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 143 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Oyster Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the oysters by removing the gills.

  2. Chop the celery and set aside.

  3. Serve the oysters with olives and cold roast chicken.

  4. Prepare bread dressing and cranberry sauce as sides.

  5. Bake Parker House rolls and serve with currant jelly.

  6. Make tarts and fig cake for dessert.

  7. Chill and serve frozen custard.

  8. Brew coffee and serve with nuts and maple bonbons.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Olive + cranberrytop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together143 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Olive + chickentop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together11,888 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid hexyl ester (sweet, green).

  3. Olive + breadtop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,091 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Celery + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,667 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  5. Celery + cranberrytop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together63 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (oyster, celery, olive, chicken, bread, cranberry, sauce):

  1. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  2. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  3. Cherrybetter flavor fit
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against oyster, celery, olive, chicken, bread, cranberry, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

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