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Semolina Soup

A simple soup made with veal broth, semolina, milk, salt, pepper, and served with dry toast.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Semolina and milk work together. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 316 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Semolina Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Bring ½ pint of veal broth to a boil in a saucepan.

  2. Gradually add 1 tablespoon of semolina while stirring continuously for 10 minutes.

  3. Stir in ½ pint of milk and season with salt and pepper to taste.

  4. Once hot, pour into a basin and serve with dry toast cut into small squares.

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. Semolina + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together316 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Veal + peppertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,049 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Milk + peppertop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together26,984 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  4. Semolina + peppertop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together159 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Veal + milktop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,013 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

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

What each ingredient does

Semolina
Thickens the broth and milk as it cooks, giving the soup a smooth, body-rich texture.
Veal broth
Forms the savoury liquid base of the soup.
Milk
Adds creaminess and mild sweetness to the soup.

The step that matters

Gradually add the semolina while stirring continuously. Semolina clumps if dropped in at once. Adding it slowly while stirring disperses the grains so starch can hydrate evenly and the soup thickens smoothly rather than lumpy.

“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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