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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and vinegar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,334 recipes. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

Tripe

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine cream, lemon juice, and vinegar in a saucepan.

  2. Stir over low heat until thick, without boiling.

  3. Slowly mix the sauce into the soup, stirring vigorously.

  4. Pour into a soup tureen and 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. Lemon + vinegartop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,334 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  2. Cream + vinegartop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,064 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  3. Cream + lemontop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15,640 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

Cream and lemon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 15,640 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, vinegar):

  1. Strawberryfits better
  2. Raspberryfits better
  3. Pineapplefits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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