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Peppers for Soups and Ragouts

A blend of spices and herbs used to season soups and stews.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Thyme and winter savory match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 780 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Peppers for Soups and Ragouts

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine allspice, nutmeg, cloves, long pepper, and common pepper in a bowl.

  2. Add sweet herbs, lemon zest, thyme, winter savory, sweet basil, parsley, coriander, and celery, then mix well to create a seasoning blend for soups and ragouts.

  3. For specific dishes, adjust the blend by adding sage, black pepper, and cayenne as needed.

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. Thyme + winter savorytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together780 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Allspice + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,874 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Allspice + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,331 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Nutmeg + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,686 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  5. Allspice + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,077 recipes

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

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (allspice, nutmeg, clove, pepper, thyme, winter savory, basil):

  1. Limefits about as well
  2. Lemonthe original
  3. Orangefits less well
  4. Cherryfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against allspice, nutmeg, clove, pepper, thyme, winter savory, basil. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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