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A Thanksgiving Dinner

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,023 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

A Thanksgiving Dinner

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Serve Blue Point oysters as an appetizer.

  2. Prepare Consomme Julienne as a soup.

  3. Serve browned crackers alongside the soup.

  4. Roast the turkey until fully cooked.

  5. Make cranberry sauce to accompany the turkey.

  6. Rice the potatoes and serve them hot.

  7. Bake the squash until tender.

  8. Prepare creamed onions as a side dish.

  9. Make bread and butter sandwiches for the table.

  10. Prepare chicken pie as a main dish.

  11. Fry sweet potatoes until golden brown.

  12. Toss celery and walnuts for a fresh salad.

  13. Prepare Tutti Frutti for dessert.

  14. Glaze fruit for a sweet finish.

  15. Serve salted almonds as a snack.

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. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

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

  2. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Turkey + cranberrytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together97 recipes

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

  4. Cranberry + potatotop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together30 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  5. Turkey + breadtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together822 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

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