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A lunch comprising soup, rolls, butter, bacon, potato, croquette, maple syrup, tea, lemon, sugar, corn soup, lamb chop, mashed potato, and salad.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and rice are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,769 recipes. Both carry (e,e)-2,4-decadienal, which smells fatty, deep fried. The science ↓

Lunch

Ingredients

Directions

Soup and roll

  1. Serve 1 teacup of home-made chicken soup.

  2. Enjoy 1 Parker House roll with 2 cubes of butter.

  3. Add 1 slice of lean bacon and 1 small baked potato.

  4. Include 1 rice croquette and drizzle with 2 ounces of maple syrup.

Tea and second course

  1. Brew 1 cup of tea and add 1 slice of lemon and 1 lump of sugar.

  2. Serve 1 teacup of cream of corn soup with another Parker House roll and 1 inch cube of butter.

  3. Cook 1 small lamb chop and serve with 1 teacup of mashed potato.

  4. Prepare a salad with apple, celery, and lettuce, topped with mayonnaise dressing.

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 + ricetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,769 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  2. Rice + teatop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together197 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Potato + ricetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together851 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

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

  5. Tea + lemontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together610 recipes

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

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, butter, potato, rice, maple syrup, tea, sugar):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, butter, potato, rice, maple syrup, tea, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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