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Cold Dinners for Summer

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 26 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Cold Dinners for Summer

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare bread and butter as a side.

  2. Make chopped beef sandwiches.

  3. Prepare a salad with potatoes and Lima beans.

  4. Serve baked fish.

  5. Bake ginger snaps and molasses cookies.

  6. Serve cold boiled beef with cottage cheese.

  7. Prepare corn bread and graham bread.

  8. Make ham sandwiches and serve cold roast mutton.

  9. Bake sweet apples and serve with cucumbers.

  10. Prepare custard pie and pumpkin pie.

  11. Make plum soup and soda cream.

  12. Serve hard boiled eggs and cheese.

  13. Bake sponge cake and serve with pickled beets.

  14. Prepare cold coffee and cherry pie.

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.

Explore the science

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Beef + potatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,052 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  3. Butter + cottage cheesetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together376 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  4. Bread + fishtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,668 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Bread + lima beanstop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together38 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Swap the ginger

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, butter, beef, potato, lima beans, fish, cottage cheese):

  1. Parsleyfits better
  2. Garlicfits better
  3. Celeryfits better
  4. Gingerthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, butter, beef, potato, lima beans, fish, cottage cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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