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Rice and Pumpkin Soup

A simple soup made with rice, diced pumpkin, water, salt, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,379 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Rice and Pumpkin Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a pot, bring water to a boil.

  2. Add diced pumpkin and cook until tender.

  3. Stir in rice and cook until rice is soft.

  4. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

  5. Serve hot.

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 + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,379 recipes

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

  2. Rice + pumpkintop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together338 recipes

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

  3. Pumpkin + peppertop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,650 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Softens as it cooks and thickens the soup, giving it body.
Pumpkin
Breaks down while cooking, adding body, mild sweetness and color to the broth.

Swap the pumpkin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, pepper):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Mangofits better
  4. Pumpkinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, pepper. 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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