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Mushroom Soup

A creamy soup made with sliced mushrooms, white haricot beans, onions, celery, and red currant jelly, simmered in stock.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Mushroom Soup

Why it works: Beans and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,159 recipes. Both carry 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol, which smells clove, smoky. The science ↓

Mushroom Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a large pot, combine the stock or water with the mushrooms, haricot beans, onions, red currant jelly, and celery.

  2. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 30 minutes.

  3. Blend the soup until smooth, then return to heat and adjust seasoning if necessary.

  4. 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. Beans + celerytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,159 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

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

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Beans + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,242 recipes

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

  4. Mushroom + beanstop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together411 recipes

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

  5. Mushroom + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,626 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Haricot beans
Starchy body that thickens the soup and gives it a creamy texture once blended.
Mushrooms
Add savory, earthy flavor and body to the soup.
Red currant jelly
Adds sweetness and a touch of tartness to balance the savory flavors.
Onions
Build the aromatic savory base of the soup.

Swap the red currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mushroom, beans, onion, celery):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Red currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mushroom, beans, onion, celery. 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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