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Dinner for 6 Persons

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 15 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 Julienne Soup as the first course.

  2. Fry the Whitings until golden brown.

  3. Cook the Ked Mullet and serve.

  4. Grill the Lamb Cutlets and slice the Cucumbers.

  5. Make Rissoles and serve as an entrée.

  6. Roast the Ribs of Beef until tender.

  7. Prepare Neck of Veal with Bechamel sauce and serve with vegetables.

  8. Roast Ducklings until cooked through.

  9. Make Lemon Pudding and serve.

  10. Bake Rhubarb Tart and serve.

  11. Prepare Custards and Cheesecakes for dessert.

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. Lamb + beeftop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together896 recipes

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

  3. Lemon + rhubarbtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together546 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  4. Cucumber + rhubarbtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Cucumber + lemontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

Swap the rhubarb

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (whiting, lamb, cucumber, beef, veal, sauce, lemon):

  1. Parsleyfits better
  2. Capersfits better
  3. Tarragonfits better
  4. Rhubarbthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against whiting, lamb, cucumber, beef, veal, sauce, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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