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Fowl or Capon Soup

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,232 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Fowl or Capon Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Truss the capon or fowl for boiling, leaving on the pinions.

  2. Place it in a pot with sweet herbs and onions stuck with cloves.

  3. Moisten with good stock and skim well.

  4. When ready to cook the rice, remove the fowl and wash the rice.

  5. Drop the rice into the boiling soup along with prunes or raisins.

  6. Add a little beef juice for color.

  7. Unskewer and dish the capon, covering it with liver, egg, celery, mushrooms, oysters, or cream and lemon sauce.

  8. Serve as a main dish alongside the soup.

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. Beef + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,232 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Onion + beeftop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,092 recipes

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

  4. Onion + celerytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,518 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Clove + raisintop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,070 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

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

Swap the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, clove, beef, liver, egg, celery, mushroom):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Limefits better
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, clove, beef, liver, egg, celery, mushroom. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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