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A Plainer White Soup

A soup made with veal knuckle, water, milk, cream, ground rice, and seasoning.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and rice are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,374 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

A Plainer White Soup

Ingredients

Directions

Make the broth

  1. Combine the knuckle of veal and water in a pot.

  2. Bring to a boil and simmer until the meat is tender.

  3. Remove the veal and strain the broth.

Finish the soup

  1. Add the milk, cream, and ground rice to the broth.

  2. Simmer until the soup thickens.

  3. Season to taste.

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. Milk + ricetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  2. Milk + creamtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Veal + ricetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,119 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  4. Cream + ricetop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  5. Veal + milktop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,013 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

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

What each ingredient does

Veal knuckle
Releases flavor and gelatin into the water, giving the broth body and savoriness.
Ground rice
Starch that thickens the broth as it simmers, giving the soup a smooth body.
Cream
Adds fat and richness, softening the flavor and mouthfeel of the soup.
Milk
Adds dairy sweetness and liquid body, mellowing the broth into a creamy soup.

The step that matters

Simmering until the soup thickens. Ground rice thickens only as its starch hydrates and swells during gentle simmering. Stopping too early leaves the soup thin, while boiling hard can scorch the milk and cream on the bottom of the pot.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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