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Dinner At the Clarendon

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 47 ingredients
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Why it works: Turbot and sauce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 248 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Dinner At the Clarendon

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the turbot with lobster and Dutch sauces.

  2. Cook the salmon and rougets.

  3. Fry the cod and white bait.

  4. Roast the beef fillet and turkey.

  5. Make a macaroni timbale and serve with venison.

  6. Prepare chicken croquettes and oyster pasta.

  7. Cook lamb chops and mushroom puree.

  8. Serve asparagus and French beans with lobster mayonnaise.

  9. Make a Macedonian jelly and egg aspics.

  10. Prepare a Russian Charlotte and Maraschino jelly.

  11. Serve marble cream and a pastry basket.

  12. Make a rhubarb vol-au-vent and apricot pie.

  13. Prepare meringues and dressed crab.

  14. Make a gelatin salad and sauté mushrooms.

  15. Finish with a vanilla souffle and Nesselrode pudding.

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. Turbot + saucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together248 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Beef + chickentop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,148 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  3. Turbot + lobstertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together163 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

  4. Lobster + saucetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,095 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Turkey + chickentop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together688 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).

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

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