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Italian Soup

A soup made with stock, milk, macaroni, meat, vegetables, parsley, salt, cayenne, and optional thickening.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Lamb and parsley are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,322 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Italian Soup

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the stock

  1. Strain the soup stock and skim off any grease.

Make the soup

  1. Add the mixed vegetables and macaroni to the stock.

  2. Stir in the cut meat and milk.

  3. Cook until the macaroni is tender and the soup is heated through.

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. Lamb + parsleytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,322 recipes

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

  2. Milk + lambtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together414 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Milk + parsleytop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,011 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Macaroni
Adds body and starch, thickening the soup as it cooks and softens.
Milk
Adds richness and a creamy texture to the stock.
Cooked lamb, veal, or chicken
Provides savory meat flavour and substance to the soup.
Mixed vegetables
Contribute sweetness, colour and texture to the broth.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, lamb):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Peppermintfits better
  3. Rosemaryfits better
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, lamb. 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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