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Picnic Lunches

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 34 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and turkey work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 688 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-decenal, which smells green, must. The science ↓

Picnic Lunches

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare a variety of cold dishes including roast chicken, canned salmon, and sardines.

  2. Include sides like Boston brown bread, pickles, and biscuits.

  3. Add fresh fruit, jelly, and chocolate cake for dessert.

  4. Serve with beverages like iced tea and lemonade.

  5. Consider additional items like cold turkey, ham sandwiches, and cold boiled ham.

  6. Include a pot of pork and beans, chow-chow, and spiced currants.

  7. For dessert, offer baked pears or apples, ice cream, jelly cake, and lemon pie.

  8. Hard boiled eggs and cold veal loaf can be added as protein options.

  9. Serve with Parker House rolls, sliced tomatoes, and Saratoga chips.

  10. Include mixed pickles, dried beef, and sandwiched biscuits.

  11. Finish with lemon cake and melons.

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. Chicken + turkeytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together688 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).

  2. Bread + hamtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  3. Chocolate + teatop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together163 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  4. Bread + turkeytop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together822 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Bread + biscuittop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together319 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

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