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Dinner, Sunday, April 10, 1887

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and beef match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,148 recipes. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓

Dinner, Sunday, April 10, 1887

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare chicken consomme by simmering chicken in water until flavorful.

  2. Boil the bass until cooked through.

  3. Roast the mutton until tender.

  4. Roast the ribs of beef until desired doneness.

  5. Fry pineapple fritters until golden brown.

  6. Cook macaroni according to package instructions.

  7. Mash the potatoes until smooth.

  8. Stew the tomatoes until soft.

  9. Bake sweet potatoes until tender.

  10. Serve tongue, ham, and roast beef cold.

  11. Prepare lobster salad by mixing cooked lobster with 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 + beeftop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,148 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  2. Potato + tomatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,798 recipes

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

  3. Tomato + sweet potatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together359 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Beef + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,448 recipes

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

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

Swap the pineapple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, mutton, beef, potato, tomato, sweet potato, ham):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, mutton, beef, potato, tomato, sweet potato, ham. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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