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Chicken Soup

A chicken soup with mango, paprika, celery, and rice, served with salted wafers.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Chicken Soup

Why it works: Celery and rice are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,169 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Chicken Soup

Ingredients

Directions

Make the soup

  1. Cover the chicken pieces with cold water in a pot.

  2. Cook until the chicken is nearly done.

  3. Add the shredded mango, paprika, chopped celery, and uncooked rice.

  4. Continue cooking until everything is fully cooked.

Serve

  1. Serve with salted wafers.

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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Explore the science

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. Celery + ricetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,169 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Mango + ricetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together183 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Mango + celerytop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together54 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

What each ingredient does

Young hen
Provides the main protein and rich savory flavor for the broth.
Ripe mango
Adds sweetness and fruity aroma that contrast with the savory broth.
Uncooked rice
Absorbs liquid and thickens the soup as it cooks.
Celery
Contributes a mild, fresh vegetable flavor and texture.

Swap the mango

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

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Mangothe original

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

“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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