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A Good Thanksgiving Dinner Recipe for a Good Christian Edition

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 23 ingredients
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Why it works: Cabbage and turnip match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 897 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

A Good Thanksgiving Dinner Recipe for a Good Christian Edition

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare boiled cod and serve with egg sauce.

  2. Serve celery and pickled cabbage as sides.

  3. Roast the turkey until fully cooked.

  4. Prepare stewed cranberries and mashed potatoes.

  5. Boil turnips until tender.

  6. Cook onions in cream sauce.

  7. Bake squash until soft.

  8. Boil ham in cider until heated through.

  9. Serve mince pie, pumpkin pie, and deep apple pie for dessert.

  10. Offer American cheese, butternuts, and popcorn as snacks.

  11. Finish with fresh apples, grapes, coffee, and cider.

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. Cabbage + turniptop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together897 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Celery + turniptop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,418 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

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

  4. Turnip + oniontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,585 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Celery + cabbagetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,840 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

Swap the cabbage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, sauce, celery, turkey, potato, turnip, onion):

  1. Leekfits better
  2. Carrotfits better
  3. Chivefits better
  4. Cabbagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, sauce, celery, turkey, potato, turnip, onion. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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