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Bacon Gravy Soup

A simple soup made with bacon, flour, water, salt, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 50,459 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Bacon Gravy Soup

Ingredients

Directions

Make the bacon base

  1. Cook bacon in a pot until crispy.

  2. Remove bacon and crumble it, leaving drippings in pot.

  3. Add flour to drippings and stir to form a roux.

Make the soup

  1. Gradually add water, stirring constantly until thickened.

  2. Season with salt and pepper.

  3. Add crumbled bacon back into soup.

  4. Serve hot.

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. Flour + peppertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together50,459 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Bacon
Its rendered drippings provide fat and savory flavor, and the crispy pieces add texture.
Flour
Forms a roux with the bacon fat, which thickens the liquid into a gravy-like soup.
Water
Forms the liquid base that the roux thickens into a soup.

The step that matters

Adding the water to the roux. Pouring the water in gradually and stirring constantly keeps the flour smooth, so it thickens evenly without lumps.

“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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