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Turtle Soup Maigre

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Fish and truffle work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 137 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Turtle Soup Maigre

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Stew the turtle flesh in vegetable or fish stock until the jelly becomes sufficiently clear for soup.

  2. Season with curry powder and add truffles to enhance the flavor.

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. Fish + truffletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together137 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

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