Skip to main content

Dinner for 18 Persons

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 18 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Peas and cucumber match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 629 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Dinner for 18 Persons

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare Green-Pea Soup and serve it with Salmon and dressed Cucumber.

  2. Follow with Mackerel a la Maitre d'Hotel.

  3. Serve Haunch of Venison and Pigeon Pie next.

  4. Include Braised Ham and Saddle of Lamb.

  5. Add Lamb Cutlets and Peas to the table.

  6. Finish with Roast Ducks and Vanilla Souffle.

  7. Serve Raspberry Cream and Strawberry Cream as desserts.

  8. Present Green Goose and Iced Pudding for the final course.

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.

Explore the science

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. Peas + cucumbertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together629 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Peas + salmontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together375 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Salmon + cucumbertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together513 recipes

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

  4. Salmon + venisontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together33 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Peas + lambtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together650 recipes

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

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

Swap the vanilla

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peas, salmon, cucumber, butter, venison, ham, lamb):

  1. Pumpkinfits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Vanillathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peas, salmon, cucumber, butter, venison, ham, lamb. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

You might also like

Green PeasGreen Peas229 recipesSalmon SaladSalmon Salad155 recipesSalmon CroquettesSalmon Croquettes129 recipesGreen Peas SoupGreen Peas Soup35 recipes