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Soup Sav.t 'e or Gravy Soup

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 25 ingredients
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Why it works: Clove and nutmeg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,686 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Soup Sav.t 'e or Gravy Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a large pot, combine veal stock, tongue, skin, onions, cloves, mace, nutmeg, sweet herbs, and anchovies.

  2. Stew until tender, then remove the meat and cut it into 2-inch pieces, skin the tongue and cut it similarly.

  3. Strain the liquid, melt butter in a stewpan, and stir in flour until smooth.

  4. Gradually add the strained liquid, stirring until combined; strain again if lumpy.

  5. Add white wine, season well, and include force-meat balls and egg-balls.

  6. Stir in lemon juice and let it stew gently for an hour.

  7. If too thick, add some broth before the final simmer.

  8. Serve hot in a tureen.

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. Clove + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,686 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Mace + nutmegtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,557 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Clove + macetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,400 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

  4. Nutmeg + flourtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,623 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Butter + white winetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,083 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

Swap the onion

The recipe marks onion as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (clove, mace, nutmeg, butter, flour, white wine, meat):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Leekfits better
  3. Carrotfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against clove, mace, nutmeg, butter, flour, white wine, meat. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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