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Dinner: Soup, Roast Lamb, Potato, Boiled Onions, Strawberry Ice Cream, Tea.

A dinner featuring soup, roast lamb, potatoes, boiled onions, strawberry ice cream, and tea.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and onion 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 ↓

Dinner: Soup, Roast Lamb, Potato, Boiled Onions, Strawberry Ice Cream, Tea.

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare the soup in a pot.

  2. Roast the lamb until cooked through.

  3. Boil the potatoes until tender.

  4. Boil the onions until soft.

Serve

  1. Serve the strawberry ice cream as dessert.

  2. Brew and serve tea alongside.

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. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

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

  2. Lamb + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together520 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Potato + teatop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together136 recipes

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

  4. Strawberry + teatop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together87 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Strawberry + creamtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,525 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Roast lamb
Provides the main protein and savoury flavour of the meal.
Potatoes
Supply starch that becomes tender and fluffy when boiled, adding bulk to the meal.
Onions
Soften when boiled, becoming sweet and mild in flavour.
Strawberry ice cream
Adds cold, sweet fat and flavour to finish the meal as dessert.

Swap the strawberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lamb, potato, onion, cream, tea):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Cherryfits better
  3. Limefits better
  4. Strawberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lamb, potato, onion, cream, tea. 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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