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Soup Stocks

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and celery are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,047 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Soup Stocks

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the stock until tender.

  2. Cut up the remaining ingredients and boil them in the stock.

  3. Once tender, rub the mixture through a sieve.

  4. Mix the potato flour with a little cold stock or water, then add it to the soup.

  5. Return the soup to the saucepan and stir over heat until boiling.

  6. Place the shredded celery in a tureen and pour the soup over it.

  7. Serve with croutons.

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. Potato + celerytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Flour + celerytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,905 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Potato + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,355 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, celery):

  1. Turnipfits better
  2. Parsnipfits better
  3. Arrowrootfits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, celery. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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