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Dinner for 12 Persons

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 20 ingredients
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Why it works: Turbot and smelt share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 26 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Dinner for 12 Persons

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare Carrot Soup a la Cr^cy and Oxtail Soup as the first course.

  2. Serve Turbot with Lobster Sauce and Fried Smelts with Dutch Sauce.

  3. For the entrees, cook Mutton Cutlets with Soubise Sauce and Sweetbreads with Oyster Patties.

  4. Prepare Fillets of Rabbits for the first course.

  5. Roast Turkey for the second course.

  6. Stew Rump of Beef a la Jardiniere and boil Ham garnished with Brussels Sprouts.

  7. Boil Chickens and serve with Celery Sauce.

  8. For the third course, roast Hare and Teal.

  9. Prepare Eggs a la Neige and Vol-au-Vent of Preserved Fruit.

  10. Finish with Jelly, Cream, Potatoes a la Maitre d'Hotel, and Grilled Mushrooms.

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. Turbot + smelttop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together26 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Turbot + lobstertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together163 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

  3. Rabbit + turkeytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together57 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Turbot + oystertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Lobster + smelttop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together35 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the carrot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turbot, lobster, smelt, mutton, oyster, rabbit, turkey):

  1. Onionfits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Carrotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against turbot, lobster, smelt, mutton, oyster, rabbit, turkey. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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