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Dinner for 6 Persons

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 17 ingredients
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Why it works: Peas and beans match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 949 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Dinner for 6 Persons

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare a macaroni soup as the first course.

  2. Serve crimped salmon with hollandaise sauce.

  3. Fry fillets of trout.

  4. For entrees, cook veal tendrons with stewed peas.

  5. Prepare salmi of grouse.

  6. For the second course, roast the loin of veal.

  7. Boil bacon and garnish with French beans.

  8. Cook stewed beef a la jardiniere.

  9. For the third course, serve turkey poult.

  10. Prepare a plum tart and custard pudding.

  11. Make vol-au-vent of pears and strawberry cream.

  12. Finish with a ratafia souffle.

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. Peas + beanstop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together949 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  2. Beef + turkeytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together248 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  3. Beans + plumtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together171 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Salmon + peastop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together375 recipes

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

  5. Peas + plumtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together62 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

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

Swap the plum

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, sauce, veal, peas, beans, beef, turkey):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Coconutfits about as well
  4. Plumthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, sauce, veal, peas, beans, beef, turkey. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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