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Broths, Gravies, and Soups

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Winter savory and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 780 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Broths, Gravies, and Soups

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Melt butter in a stew-pan.

  2. Add onions and stir until lightly browned.

  3. Add eel pieces and cook for 5 minutes.

  4. Pour in boiling water and remove any scum.

  5. Add savory, thyme, parsley, allspice, and black pepper.

  6. Cover and simmer gently for 2 hours.

  7. Strain the broth and skim off any fat.

  8. In a clean stew-pan, melt butter and mix in flour to form a stiff paste.

  9. Gradually add the broth, stirring well, and simmer for 10 minutes.

  10. Pass the soup through a sieve.

  11. Add fried fish to the soup 10 minutes 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. Winter savory + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together780 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Thyme + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  3. Thyme + allspicetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,077 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Winter savory + allspicetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together287 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

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

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