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Cow Heel Soup

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,173 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Cow Heel Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the meats across and place them in a pot with the old fowl and ham.

  2. Stew without any liquid over a very slow fire, stirring to prevent burning.

  3. When the meat begins to stick, add clear beef broth.

  4. Add turnips, carrots, celery, sweet herbs, and bay leaf, then more broth.

  5. Let it stew for about an hour.

  6. Split the cow heel and boil it in some of the broth until tender.

  7. Remove the cow heel and soak it in a stew pan with bread crusts and more broth for 8-10 minutes.

  8. Once the soup is rich, place the crusts in a tureen and the cow heel halves on top.

  9. Pour the soup over and season to taste before serving.

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. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  2. Turnip + carrottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,002 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Turnip + celerytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,418 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Ham + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

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

  5. Mutton + beeftop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,373 recipes

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

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

Swap the turnip

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mutton, beef, veal, ham, carrot, celery, bread):

  1. Tomatofits about as well
  2. Leekfits about as well
  3. Onionfits about as well
  4. Turnipthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, beef, veal, ham, carrot, celery, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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