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Vegetable Marrow, or Green Pumpkin Soup

A soup made from vegetable marrows simmered in stock and finished with cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and white pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 24% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,439 recipes. The science ↓

Vegetable Marrow, or Green Pumpkin Soup

Ingredients

Directions

Make the purée

  1. Pare and slice the vegetable marrows.

  2. Put them into the boiling white stock.

  3. Cook until they are almost mashed.

  4. Press the mixture through a sieve.

Finish and serve

  1. Just before serving, add the boiling cream and season with salt and white pepper.

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. Cream + white peppertop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,439 recipes
  2. Pumpkin + creamtop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together687 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

  3. Pumpkin + white peppertop 37% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together33 recipes

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

What each ingredient does

Vegetable marrows
Provide the main body of the soup, breaking down into pulp that thickens the liquid and gives it flavour.
White stock
Forms the liquid base and softens the marrows so they can be pressed into a smooth purée.
Cream
Adds richness and a silky mouthfeel to the finished soup.

The step that matters

Cook until the marrows are almost mashed. The marrow must be soft enough to break down completely. If it is undercooked, the pulp will not press through the sieve smoothly, leaving the soup grainy rather than silky.

Swap the pumpkin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, white pepper):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Strawberryfits better
  4. Pumpkinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, white pepper. 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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