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Dinner for 12 Persons

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 24 ingredients
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Why it works: Sauce and whiting 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 12 Persons

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare Mock-Turtle Soup and Soup à la Jardinière as the first course.

  2. Serve Salmon and Lobster Sauce alongside Fried Whitings and Stewed Eels.

  3. For the entrees, cook Veal Cutlets, Scalloped Oysters, Curried Fowl, and Grilled Mushrooms.

  4. For the second course, roast Haunch of Mutton and Boil Calf's Head à la Bechamel.

  5. Braised Ham and Roast Fowls aux Cressons follow.

  6. For the third course, serve Leveret and Grouse.

  7. Finish with Cabinet Pudding, Iced Pudding, Compote of Plums, Damson Tart, Cream, Fruit Jelly, Prawns, and Lobster Salad.

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. Sauce + whitingtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together236 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Lobster + whitingtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together73 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Salmon + oystertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together672 recipes

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

  5. Lobster + oystertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together255 recipes

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

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