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Stock for White Soup

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Stock for White Soup

Why it works: Veal and ham are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,264 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Stock for White Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Thoroughly wash the veal or neck.

  2. Cut the meat into one or two pieces.

  3. Place the meat in a clean soup pot or a well-tinned large iron saucepan.

  4. Add the slices of ham to the pot.

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. Veal + hamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,264 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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