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Tomato Soup

A tomato soup made with Campbell's tomato soup, hot water, orange slices, and served with butter thins.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Tomato Soup

Why it works: Tomato and orange match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 689 recipes mention both. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Tomato Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a soup tureen, slice the orange very thin and place it at the bottom.

  2. Add the tomato soup and hot water to the tureen.

  3. Stir gently and serve with butter thins.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Tomato + orangetop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together689 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Tomato + buttertop 22% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together6,918 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Orange + buttertop 23% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together7,301 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

Orange
Adds bright citrus aroma and a touch of acidity that contrasts with the tomato.
Tomato soup
Provides the main body, flavor and color of the soup base.

Flavor stand-ins for the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tomato, butter):

  1. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  2. Cherrybetter flavor fit
  3. Plumbetter flavor fit
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

“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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