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Dinner for 10 Persons

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 20 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and asparagus work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 539 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Dinner for 10 Persons

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the Spring Soup as the first course.

  2. Cook the Salmon and serve it à la Genovese.

  3. Prepare and serve the Red Mullet.

  4. For the entrees, make Chicken Vol-au-Vent.

  5. Cook Calf's Liver and Bacon with Fines Herbes.

  6. For the second course, roast the Saddle of Mutton.

  7. Prepare the Half Calf's Head, Tongue, and Brains.

  8. Braised Ham should be served with Asparagus.

  9. For the third course, roast the Pigeons and Ducklings.

  10. Make Sponge-cake Pudding, Charlotte à la Vanille, Gooseberry Tart, Cream, and Cheesecakes.

  11. Finish with Apricot-jam Tart.

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. Chicken + asparagustop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together539 recipes

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

  2. Asparagus + gooseberrytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Chicken + muttontop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together471 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Chicken + hamtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,497 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Mutton + hamtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together430 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

Swap the gooseberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, chicken, liver, mutton, ham, asparagus, cream):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Pumpkinfits better
  4. Gooseberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, chicken, liver, mutton, ham, asparagus, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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