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Beef and Barley Soup II

"It is amazing that only a few ingredients can turn into something so wonderful as this. Remember, as it sits, it will thicken."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and barley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 458 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓

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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. Beef + barleytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together458 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  2. Beef + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together18,971 recipes

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

  3. Barley + peppertop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together897 recipes

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

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