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Julienne Soup

A soup of julienned vegetables, meatballs, and stock, seasoned with salt, pepper, and nutmeg.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 17 ingredients
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Why it works: Turnip and leek match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,046 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Julienne Soup

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the vegetables

  1. Cut the vegetables into thin strips, about 2 inches long.

  2. Wash the vegetables well and strain them through a colander.

Cook the soup

  1. In a clean saucepan, combine the vegetables with 1 pint of water, a little salt, pepper, and grated nutmeg.

  2. Boil the vegetables with a few meatballs until cooked.

  3. Add the mixture to 1 quart of stock and stir in a little browning for color.

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. Turnip + leektop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,046 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Leek + jerusalem artichoketop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Turnip + jerusalem artichoketop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together74 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  5. Carrot + turniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,002 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

Carrot
Adds natural sweetness and color as it cooks into the broth.
Potato
Softens as it cooks, adding body and a little starchy thickness to the soup.
Leek
Contributes a mild onion-like aroma that builds the soup's savory base.
Celery
Provides a fresh, aromatic vegetable flavor that carries through the broth.
Stock
Forms the main liquid, carrying the flavor of the vegetables and meatballs throughout.

The step that matters

Boil the vegetables with the meatballs until cooked. Thin strips cook quickly and can turn mushy if boiled too long, while the meatballs must be cooked through. Keeping a gentle, steady simmer helps the vegetables stay intact and the meatballs cook evenly.

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, turnip, leek, celery, jerusalem artichoke, potato, beans):

  1. Lentilsfits better
  2. Chickpeafits better
  3. Chestnutfits better
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, turnip, leek, celery, jerusalem artichoke, potato, beans. 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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