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Family Dinner

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 18 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,023 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Family Dinner

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare barley soup and serve with toasted crackers.

  2. Roast a whole pig and garnish with cranberry jelly and apple butter.

  3. Bake onions, roast potatoes, and squash.

  4. Make raised rolls and serve with the meal.

  5. Prepare a vegetable salad with boiled dressing.

  6. Make steamed fruit pudding and serve with hard sauce.

  7. Offer fruits, nuts, and raisins as dessert, along with 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. Onion + potatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

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

  2. Cranberry + appletop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together169 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  3. Barley + potatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together165 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  5. Cranberry + potatotop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together30 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

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

Swap the cranberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (barley, apple, butter, onion, potato, sauce, cheese):

  1. Figfits about as well
  2. Pearfits about as well
  3. Grapefits about as well
  4. Cranberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against barley, apple, butter, onion, potato, sauce, cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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