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Palestine Soup

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 22 ingredients
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Palestine Soup

Why it works: Turnip and leek match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,046 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Palestine Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the vegetable stock by cutting equal quantities of carrots, turnips, onions, leeks, and celery into small pieces.

  2. Toss the vegetables in plenty of butter for 30 minutes.

  3. Add shredded lettuce, parsley, chervil, thyme, marjoram, and tarragon; toss for a few more minutes.

  4. Pour in enough water to make the desired amount of stock, then season with pepper, salt, cloves, mace, and a pinch of sugar.

  5. Let the mixture stew gently for several hours, then strain through a cloth.

  6. For the soup, stir in ½ pint of cream and bring to a boil before serving with fried bread sippets.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Turnip + leektop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,046 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Carrot + turniptop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8,002 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Turnip + celerytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,418 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Carrot + leektop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,310 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, bread, butter, carrot, turnip, leek, celery):

  1. Parsnipbetter flavor fit
  2. Lettucebetter flavor fit
  3. Chivebetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, bread, butter, carrot, turnip, leek, celery. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

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