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Kiimmel Suppe — Caraway Soup

A soup made by boiling bread and caraway seeds, then mixing with butter, eggs, and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Kiimmel Suppe — Caraway Soup

Ingredients

Directions

Make the soup

  1. Boil the bread and caraway seeds in enough water for 30 minutes.

  2. Rub the mixture through a coarse sieve.

Finish and serve

  1. In a tureen, cream the butter.

  2. Add the eggs and salt, stirring to combine.

  3. Pour the hot soup over the egg mixture and serve.

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.

Explore the science

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  3. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Caraway + buttertop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,273 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Caraway + eggtop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,012 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Bread
Thickens the soup as it boils and breaks down, giving it body.
Eggs
Enriches the soup and thickens it gently when combined with the hot liquid.
Butter
Adds richness and a smooth, silky mouthfeel to the soup.
Caraway seeds
Provide the main aroma and warm, earthy flavour of the soup.

The step that matters

Pour the hot soup over the egg mixture. Adding the eggs to very hot liquid can scramble them. Pour the soup in gradually while stirring so the eggs warm slowly and stay smooth.

Swap the caraway

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, butter, egg):

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Capersfits better
  4. Carawaythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, butter, egg. 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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