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Iiice-flour Soup

A soup made with rice flour, broth, ham or smoked beef, onion, cayenne, salt, cream powder, and lemon juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Iiice-flour Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix rice flour with a little cold broth until smooth.

  2. Pour the mixture into boiling broth or gravy soup.

  3. Add minced onion, cayenne pepper, and salt if needed.

  4. Boil for 10 minutes.

  5. For improved flavor, add cream powder and lemon juice.

  6. For a richer soup, use veal stock and add ¾ pint of thick cream.

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. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Rice + oniontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,433 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

  4. Rice + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,379 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Rice + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,366 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

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

What each ingredient does

Rice flour
Thickens the broth into a smooth, light body as its starch swells when boiled.
Broth or gravy soup
Forms the liquid base that carries the flavor of the whole soup.
Cream powder
Adds richness and a mellow, creamy flavor to the soup.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the flavor and balances the richness.

The step that matters

Mix the rice flour smooth before adding it to the broth. Rice flour clumps when it meets hot liquid directly. Stirring it into a little cold broth first separates the grains so they hydrate evenly and the soup thickens without lumps.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, flour, onion, pepper, cream, ham):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Limefits about as well
  3. Coconutfits about as well
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, flour, onion, pepper, cream, ham. 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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