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Beef Soup— or Goroo Ka Gose Ka Soup

A hearty beef soup with rice, potatoes, turnips, onions, and seasonings, simmered until tender.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,023 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Beef Soup— or Goroo Ka Gose Ka Soup

6 pints

Ingredients

Directions

Start the broth

  1. Combine beef and water in a large pot.

  2. Bring to a boil and remove any scum that rises to the surface.

Simmer

  1. Add sliced potatoes, turnips, and onions.

  2. Season with pepper and salt.

  3. Reduce heat and simmer for about 3 hours, or until the meat is tender.

Strain and reduce

  1. Remove the beef and strain the broth, discarding the solids.

  2. Return the broth to the pot and simmer until reduced to 6 pints.

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. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Turnip + oniontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,585 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Rice + potatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together851 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  4. Beef + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,092 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Potato + turniptop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together562 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

What each ingredient does

Beef
Gives the broth its meaty flavour, and long simmering makes the meat tender.
Potatoes
Soften during cooking and add body and a little starch to the broth.
Turnips
Soften during simmering and add a mild, earthy sweetness to the broth.
Onions
Release sugars and aroma as they cook, deepening the flavour of the broth.

The step that matters

Skimming the scum after the boil. Foam that rises when the water first boils holds coagulated proteins and impurities. Removing it early keeps the broth clear and free of bitter or greasy off-flavours.

Swap the turnip

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, rice, potato, onion, pepper):

  1. Carrotfits better
  2. Tomatofits better
  3. Chivefits better
  4. Turnipthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, rice, potato, onion, 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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