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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: Smelt and sauce 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 6 Persons

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the Macaroni Soup as the first course.

  2. Boil the mackerel and serve it with a Maitre d'Hotel sauce.

  3. Fry the smelts until golden brown.

  4. Prepare scallops of fowl as an entrée.

  5. Make a lobster pudding for the next course.

  6. Boil the leg of lamb and serve with spinach.

  7. Roast the sirloin of beef and accompany with horseradish sauce.

  8. Serve the roast leveret as part of the third course.

  9. Prepare a fresh salad.

  10. Make a souffle of rice for dessert.

  11. Serve ramakins alongside the dessert.

  12. Prepare strawberry jam tartlets and orange jelly for a sweet finish.

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. Smelt + saucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together103 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. Spinach + horseradishtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together39 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Scallop + lobstertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

Swap the spinach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (smelt, scallop, lobster, lamb, beef, horseradish, sauce):

  1. Mustardfits better
  2. Onionfits better
  3. Shallotfits about as well
  4. Spinachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against smelt, scallop, lobster, lamb, beef, horseradish, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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