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A roast chicken or turkey served with creamed potatoes, peas, cranberries, bread, butter, and ice cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 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 ↓

Dinner

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Roast the chicken or turkey until fully cooked.

  2. Prepare creamed potatoes by boiling and mashing them, then adding cream and seasoning.

  3. Cook fresh peas in boiling water until tender.

Serve

  1. Serve cranberries as a sauce or whole.

  2. Serve with bread and butter.

  3. Dish out ice cream for dessert.

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

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

  2. Chicken + potatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,756 recipes

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

  3. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  4. Potato + peastop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,016 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  5. Peas + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together804 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexyl acetate (fruity, apple).

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken or turkey
Provides the main protein of the meal, cooked through by roasting.
Potatoes
Boiled and mashed to form a soft, smooth base enriched by cream.
Cream
Adds richness and a smooth, silky texture to the mashed potatoes.
Fresh peas
Cooked in boiling water until tender, adding a sweet, mild vegetable element.
Cranberries
Add tart acidity that balances the rich meat and creamy potatoes.

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, potato, cream, bread, butter):

  1. Peanutfits better
  2. Beansfits about as well
  3. Lima beansfits about as well
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, potato, cream, bread, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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