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From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Why it works: Cranberry and lamb share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and 14 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

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Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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Recipe from a historical cookbook.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Cranberry + lambtop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,632 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Cranberry + orangetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together230 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  4. Orange + apricottop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together703 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  5. Cranberry + apricottop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together18 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cauliflower

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cranberry, orange, sauce, lemon, cream, apricot, lamb):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Potatobetter flavor fit
  3. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  4. Cauliflowerthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cranberry, orange, sauce, lemon, cream, apricot, lamb. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).