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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,756 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-decenal, which smells green, must. The science ↓

Dinner

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Choose chicken, beef, or mutton and prepare 1 tablespoon.

  2. Prepare 4 to 6 ounces of broth (meat or oyster).

  3. Make meat stews with 1 or 2 tablespoons of rice.

  4. Serve 1 tablespoon of baked potatoes or rice.

  5. Add 1 or 2 slices of bread.

  6. Pour 8 ounces of milk.

  7. Serve 1 tablespoon of custard pudding or junket.

  8. Include ½ of an orange or baked apple.

  9. Add 1 tablespoon of stewed fruit or prunes.

  10. Cut cake or gingerbread into 1 to 1½ inch squares.

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

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

  2. Potato + milktop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  3. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Potato + orangetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together537 recipes

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

  5. Chicken + meattop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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 (chicken, meat, potato, bread, milk, junket):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Grapefits about as well
  3. Coconutfits about as well
  4. Orangethe original

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

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