Name: Buchanan Carrot Soup
Ingredients: 2 quarts good brown stock (or strong beef broth); 1 tablespoon curry powder; Cayenne pepper to taste; 6 to 8 ounces Fatna rice (or 3 to 4 ounces pearl barley); Optional: Captain White's curry paste; Optional: Gold vegetables, cut small

Why it works: Beef and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 18,971 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Buchanan Carrot Soup

Ingredients

2 quarts good brown stock (or strong beef broth)
1 tablespoon curry powder
Cayenne pepper to taste
6 to 8 ounces Fatna rice (or 3 to 4 ounces pearl barley)
Optional: Captain White's curry paste
Optional: Gold vegetables, cut small

Directions

In a pot, combine the brown stock and bring to a boil.
Mix the curry powder with a little liquid until smooth, then add to the soup and boil for 10 minutes.
Alternatively, season with cayenne pepper and stir in the cooked rice or barley.
Let the soup simmer on low heat for 10 minutes.
Serve immediately, optionally adding curry paste and small cut vegetables for extra flavor.

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.

Beef + peppertop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together18,971 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Beef + ricetop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,265 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).
Pepper + ricetop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together8,379 recipes

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