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Dinner for 10 Persons

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 18 ingredients
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Why it works: Sauce and whiting 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 10 Persons

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare Gravy Soup as the first course.

  2. Serve Salmon with Dressed Cucumber and Shrimp Sauce.

  3. Fry Fillets of Whitings.

  4. Make Lobster Cutlets and Chicken Patties for the entrees.

  5. Roast the Fillet of Veal and boil the Leg of Lamb.

  6. Serve Ham garnished with Broccoli.

  7. Prepare Ducklings for the third course.

  8. Make Rhubarb, Custards, Vanilla Cream, and Orange Jelly for dessert.

  9. Finish with Cabinet Pudding and Ice Pudding.

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 + whitingtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together236 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Whiting + lobstertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together73 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Sauce + lobstertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,095 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Shrimp + lobstertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together403 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  5. Shrimp + chickentop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together988 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

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

Swap the cucumber

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, shrimp, sauce, whiting, lobster, chicken, veal):

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Onionfits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Cucumberthe original

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

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