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Cucumber Souj

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,466 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Cucumber Souj

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Peel and cut cucumbers into pieces.

  2. Boil cucumbers in just enough water to cover them until reduced to a paste.

  3. Press the mixture through a colander, including the remaining water.

  4. In a pot, combine equal parts broth and fresh milk.

  5. Stir in the cucumber puree and season with salt, pepper, and a dust of sugar.

  6. Place thin slices of bread at the bottom of a soup tureen.

  7. When the soup is about to boil, pour it over the bread in the tureen.

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. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Cucumber + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,991 recipes

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

  3. Cucumber + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together344 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Pepper + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Veal + breadtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,056 recipes

    Shared aroma: cis-3-hexenol (green, grassy).

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

Swap the cucumber

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, milk, pepper, sugar, bread):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Tomatofits better
  3. Carrotfits better
  4. Cucumberthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, milk, pepper, sugar, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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