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Julienne Soup Quickly Made

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Clove and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,668 recipes. Both carry gamma-decalactone, which smells peach, creamy. The science ↓

Julienne Soup Quickly Made

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Peel the onion and stick the cloves into it.

  2. Put the onion, water, gelatine, celery, peppercorns, and mixed herbs into a saucepan.

  3. Simmer gently until the water is flavored, then strain the liquid.

  4. Stir in Liebig’s Extract to color and flavor the soup.

  5. Mix arrowroot with water to a smooth paste and boil it in the soup to thicken slightly.

  6. Soak the Julienne vegetables in cold water for 45 minutes, then drain.

  7. Boil the vegetables in fresh salted water until tender.

  8. Combine the vegetables with the soup and boil together for 15 minutes.

  9. Serve immediately in a heated soup 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 + celerytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,668 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  2. Clove + arrowroottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together121 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Onion + celerytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,518 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Celery + arrowroottop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together114 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Onion + arrowroottop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together340 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (clove, celery, arrowroot):

  1. Turnipfits better
  2. Beetrootfits better
  3. Carrotfits better
  4. Onionthe original

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

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