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A roast chicken or turkey served with creamed potatoes, peas, cranberries, strawberries, bread, butter, and coffee, cocoa, tea, milk, and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Coffee and cocoa work together. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 91 recipes. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

Dinner Aiexu

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the chicken and sides

  1. Roast the chicken or turkey until fully cooked.

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

  3. Cook fresh peas until tender.

Serve

  1. Serve cranberries and fresh strawberries as sides.

  2. Toast or serve the bread with butter.

  3. Sweeten coffee, cocoa, or tea to taste.

  4. Serve milk and water as beverages.

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.

Explore the science

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. Coffee + cocoatop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together91 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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

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

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

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

  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, which sets firm and turns browned and savoury when roasted.
Potatoes
Mashing breaks down starch, giving a smooth, soft texture that cream enriches.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and flavour on the warm bread.
Sugar
Adds sweetness to the coffee, cocoa, or tea.

Swap the peas

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

  1. Peanutfits better
  2. Beansfits better
  3. Almondfits better
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, potato, bread, butter, sugar, coffee, cocoa. 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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