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Dinner for 12 Persons

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 25 ingredients
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Why it works: Sauce and smelt match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 103 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Dinner for 12 Persons

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare Soup h la Reine and Clear Gravy Soup as the first course.

  2. Serve John Dory with Lobster Sauce and Fried Smelts as entrees.

  3. Prepare Lobster Rissoles, Beef Palates, and Pork Cutlets a la Soubise.

  4. Grill mushrooms and serve them alongside the entrees.

  5. For the second course, braise the turkey and serve with haunch of mutton, boiled capon, and oysters.

  6. Garnish boiled tongue with broccoli tufts.

  7. For the third course, serve wild ducks and plovers.

  8. Prepare and serve orange jelly, clear jelly, Charlotte Russe, Nesselrode pudding, and gateau de riz.

  9. Include sea-kale and maids of honour as sides.

  10. Finish with dessert and ices.

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. Sauce + smelttop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together103 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Beef + porktop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,690 recipes

    Shared aroma: 12-methyltridecanal (tallowy, beefy).

  3. Beef + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  4. Lobster + saucetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,095 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Pork + turkeytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together830 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

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

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