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Suggested Bills of Fare for the Basket Lunch

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 39 ingredients
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Why it works: Cottage cheese and cream cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 77 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Suggested Bills of Fare for the Basket Lunch

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare sandwiches with sliced tender meat and serve with halved apple and cookies.

  2. Include slices of meat loaf or bean loaf, stewed fruit, and frosted cake.

  3. Use crisp rolls hollowed out and filled with chopped meat or fish, moistened and seasoned, or mixed with salad dressing.

  4. Add a mixture of sliced fruits or berries, and cake.

  5. Prepare lettuce or celery sandwiches, cup custard, and jelly sandwiches.

  6. Include cottage cheese sandwiches or a pot of cream cheese with bread-and-butter sandwiches.

  7. Add peanut butter sandwiches, fruit, and cake.

  8. Include hard-boiled eggs, baking powder biscuits, celery, and radishes.

  9. Prepare brown sugar or maple sugar sandwiches.

  10. Pack a bottle of milk, thin corn bread with butter, dates, and apple.

  11. Include raisin or nut bread with butter, cheese, orange, and maple sugar.

  12. Add baked beans and lettuce sandwiches, apple sauce, and sweet chocolate.

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. Cottage cheese + cream cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together77 recipes

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

  2. Lettuce + celerytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,033 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Apple + orangetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,230 recipes

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

  4. Orange + celerytop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together452 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Apple + celerytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,155 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, apple, lettuce, celery, cottage cheese, cream cheese, bread):

  1. Pineapplefits better
  2. Grapefits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, apple, lettuce, celery, cottage cheese, cream cheese, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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