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Dinner for Ten People, No. 1

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 20 ingredients
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Why it works: Mushroom and beans match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 411 recipes. Both carry trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Dinner for Ten People, No. 1

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Serve raw oysters on a platter.

  2. Prepare consomme or bisque of crabs as a soup.

  3. Boil sheepshead until cooked through.

  4. Make Hollandaise sauce and serve with sheepshead.

  5. Cook sweetbreads and serve with brown sauce.

  6. Sauté mushrooms and serve as a side.

  7. Prepare fonds d'artichauts and serve.

  8. Roast saddle of mutton and serve with currant jelly.

  9. Steam French beans until tender.

  10. Prepare Roman punch as a beverage.

  11. Roast partridge or quail and serve with fried bread crumbs.

  12. Make mayonnaise of celery and serve as a salad.

  13. Bake cheese straws until golden.

  14. Prepare baba au rhum for dessert.

  15. Serve ices as a refreshing treat.

  16. Present a dessert of fresh fruit.

  17. Brew and serve coffee.

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. Mushroom + beanstop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together411 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  2. Oyster + crabtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together95 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  3. Crab + saucetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together238 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Mushroom + muttontop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together685 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Crab + beanstop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together24 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

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

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (oyster, crab, sauce, mushroom, mutton, beans, quail):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Grapefits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against oyster, crab, sauce, mushroom, mutton, beans, quail. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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