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Dinner for 6 Persons

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 17 ingredients
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Why it works: Whiting and sauce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 236 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Dinner for 6 Persons

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare vermicelli soup.

  2. Fry the whitings until golden.

  3. Stew the eels until tender.

  4. Cook poulet a la Marengo.

  5. Stuff and roll the breast of veal.

  6. Roast the leg of pork and serve with apple sauce.

  7. Boil the capon and serve with oysters.

  8. Garnish the tongue with broccoli tufts.

  9. Prepare wild ducks as desired.

  10. Make lobster salad.

  11. Prepare Charlotte aux Pommes.

  12. Make pain de rhubarb.

  13. Prepare vanilla cream.

  14. Make orange jelly.

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. Whiting + saucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together236 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Chicken + porktop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,417 recipes

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

  3. Fish + oystertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together496 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  4. Veal + porktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,930 recipes

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

  5. Fish + porktop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together668 recipes

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

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 (fish, whiting, chicken, veal, pork, sauce, oyster):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against fish, whiting, chicken, veal, pork, sauce, oyster. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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