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Dinner, Sunday, April 10, 1887

A Sunday dinner menu featuring chicken consommé, bass, mutton, beef ribs, pineapple fritters, macaroni, potatoes, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, cold meats, lobster salad, and salad.

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

Prepare the main dishes

  1. Prepare chicken consommé by simmering the whole chicken in water until flavorful.

  2. Boil the bass in salted water until cooked through.

  3. Roast the leg of mutton until desired doneness.

  4. Roast the ribs of beef until browned and cooked to preference.

Make the sides

  1. Fry pineapple fritters by coating pineapple slices in batter and frying until golden.

  2. Cook macaroni according to package instructions and serve with sauce.

  3. Boil potatoes until tender, then mash with butter and salt.

  4. Stew tomatoes until soft and season to taste.

  5. Bake sweet potatoes in the oven until tender.

Serve

  1. Serve cold tongue, ham, and roast beef sliced.

  2. Prepare a lobster salad with cooked lobster meat and your choice of 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

What each ingredient does

Eggs (in the method)
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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.

“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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