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A Grape Dinner

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Grape and pistachio work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 182 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

A Grape Dinner

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Arrange a large silver and glass dish in the center of the table and fill it with deep purple and bright green grapes, garnished with grape leaves.

  2. Extend grape vines from the dish to the corners of the table, ending with large bunches of green grapes.

  3. Set the table for eight with doilies shaped like grape leaves under each plate.

  4. Serve grape jelly molded in a bunch-of-grapes shape with the game.

  5. Follow the roast with homemade grape sorbet, then serve ices and cream shaped like bunches of grapes and tinted with pistachio.

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. Grape + pistachiotop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together182 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  2. Cream + pistachiotop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together634 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

  3. Meat + pistachiotop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together72 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Meat + creamtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,248 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Grape + meattop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together371 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

Swap the grape

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, cream, pistachio):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Vanillafits better
  4. Grapethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, cream, pistachio. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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