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Green Peas Soup

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Green Peas Soup

Why it works: Lettuce and beans match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 500 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Green Peas Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Shell the peas, reserving ½ pint of the best for later.

  2. Wash the shells and boil them in enough water to cover, adding ½ teaspoon of carbonate of soda for 30 minutes.

  3. Rub the boiled shells through a fine colander.

  4. In another pan, combine the remaining peas, onions, lettuces, and bread with 1 quart of water and boil until soft.

  5. Rub this mixture through the colander and combine with the shell liquid.

  6. Mix the butter and flour, then stir into the soup, seasoning with salt and pepper.

  7. Boil the reserved peas in a little water with a pinch of carbonate of soda, then add to the tureen and pour the soup over them.

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. Lettuce + beanstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together500 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  2. Peas + minttop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,137 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  3. Lettuce + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,483 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  4. Peas + beanstop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together949 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  5. Peas + lettucetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,293 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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

Swap the mint

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peas, onion, lettuce, parsley, beans, butter, flour):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Cuminfits better
  4. Mintthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peas, onion, lettuce, parsley, beans, butter, flour. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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