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Dinner for 6 Persons

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Haddock and sauce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 200 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Dinner for 6 Persons

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare pea-soup according to your favorite recipe.

  2. Bake haddock until cooked through.

  3. Cook soles in cream until tender.

  4. Season mutton cutlets and grill until browned.

  5. Prepare tomato sauce and serve with mutton cutlets.

  6. Fricassee rabbit by cooking in a sauce until tender.

  7. Roast pork and serve with apple sauce.

  8. Stuff and roll the breast of veal, then roast.

  9. Cook vegetables of your choice as a side.

  10. Prepare jugged hare by stewing until tender.

  11. Whip cream until soft peaks form.

  12. Make blancmange according to your favorite recipe.

  13. Bake mince pies with your preferred filling.

  14. Prepare cabinet pudding as per your recipe.

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. Haddock + saucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together200 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Rabbit + porktop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together832 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Tomato + porktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,843 recipes

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

  4. Pork + vealtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,930 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  5. Mutton + porktop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,239 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-nonanal (fatty, waxy).

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

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (haddock, mutton, tomato, sauce, rabbit, pork, veal):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Coconutfits about as well
  3. Applethe original
  4. Cherryfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against haddock, mutton, tomato, sauce, rabbit, pork, veal. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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