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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and okra work together. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 327 recipes. Both carry damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Stocks and Soups

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Put the ham or bacon in a pan with finely shredded celery and onion, tomato ketchup, herbs, and seasoning. Cook slowly, covered, for 20 minutes.

  2. Add the stock, bring to a boil, and skim well. Remove the ham, add the okra, and cook slowly for 30 minutes, skimming often.

  3. Mix cornflour with cold stock to a paste, then stir it into the soup along with more salt and pepper to taste. Boil briefly.

  4. Add finely minced beef or mutton, cover, and heat through for 10 minutes without boiling again.

  5. For a richer soup, use stock No. 7 and add 2-3 egg yolks and ½ cup of cream just before serving.

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. Tomato + okratop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together327 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Onion + okratop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together715 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Celery + tomatotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,377 recipes

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

  4. Celery + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

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

  5. Celery + okratop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together137 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

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

Swap the okra

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (ham, celery, onion, tomato, ketchup, pepper, beef):

  1. Carrotfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Mustardfits about as well
  4. Okrathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against ham, celery, onion, tomato, ketchup, pepper, beef. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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