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Dinner for 12 Persons

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 23 ingredients
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Why it works: Whiting and sauce 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 Game Soup and Clear Vermicelli Soup as starters.

  2. Cook Codfish au gratin and Fillets of Whitings à la Maitre d'Hotel.

  3. For entrees, serve Filet de Boeuf with Sauce Piquante, Fricasseed Chicken, Oyster Patties, and Curried Rabbit.

  4. For the second course, roast Turkey and sausages, boil Leg of Pork with vegetables, and roast Goose.

  5. Prepare Stewed Beef à la Jardinière.

  6. For the third course, serve Widgeon and Partridges.

  7. Finish with Charlotte aux Pommes, Mince Pies, Orange Jelly, Lemon Cream, Apple Tart, and Cabinet Pudding.

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. Whiting + saucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together236 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Pork + beeftop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,690 recipes

    Shared aroma: 12-methyltridecanal (tallowy, beefy).

  3. Chicken + porktop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,417 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  4. Chicken + beeftop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,148 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  5. Rabbit + turkeytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together57 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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