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A Simple Thanksgiving Dinner

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Haddock and sauce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 200 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

A Simple Thanksgiving Dinner

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare Tomato Soup according to your favorite recipe.

  2. Boil Haddock until cooked through.

  3. Melt butter for Drawn Butter.

  4. Slice potatoes and fry until golden for French Fried Potatoes.

  5. Roast Chicken until fully cooked.

  6. Make Giblet Sauce using giblets from the chicken.

  7. Serve fresh Cranberries.

  8. Cook Rice until tender.

  9. Boil Peas until bright green.

  10. Mix mayonnaise with chopped celery for Mayonnaise of Celery.

  11. Serve Wafers and Cheese as appetizers.

  12. Bake Mince Pie according to your favorite recipe.

  13. Prepare Pumpkin Custard according to your favorite recipe.

  14. Brew Coffee to serve hot.

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. Haddock + saucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together200 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Chicken + ricetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,769 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  3. Tomato + ricetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,065 recipes

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

  4. Tomato + chickentop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,031 recipes

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

  5. Tomato + peastop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tomato, haddock, butter, fried potato, chicken, sauce, rice):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Sesamefits better
  3. Peanutfits about as well
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, haddock, butter, fried potato, chicken, sauce, rice. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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