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Peas Soup and Pickled Pork

If the pork is very salty, soak it in cold water for a few hours before using.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Pork and mint work together. They rank in the top 28% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 353 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Peas Soup and Pickled Pork

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Make and strain the soup as directed, but do not add salt.

  2. Wash and scrape the pickled pork, then add it to the strained soup.

  3. Let it simmer for about 2 hours until the pork is tender.

  4. Remove the pork and rinse the soup with 1 cup of hot water.

  5. Serve the soup in a tureen with diced toast and dried mint on the side.

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. Pork + minttop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together353 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

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