Why it works: Lemon and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓
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Ingredients
Directions
Add the turtle flesh to the soup when it is warm and let it boil.
Skim off the scum as it rises.
Reduce heat and let the soup simmer gently for 30 minutes.
Let it stand for 15 minutes to settle, then strain through a jelly bag.
For thick soup, moisten 1 tablespoon of brown roux with a small portion of the soup until smooth, then stir it into the saucepan and bring to a boil.
Let the saucepan sit off the heat with the lid on for a short time to allow fat to rise to the surface and remove it.
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 pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.
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Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together27,047 recipes
Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
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