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New Year's Dinners

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 48 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and turnip work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 562 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

New Year's Dinners

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Serve raw oysters as an appetizer.

  2. Prepare mock turtle soup as a first course.

  3. Boil the turkey and serve with oyster sauce.

  4. Roast the haunch of venison and accompany with currant jelly.

  5. Make deviled crabs and serve as a side dish.

  6. Prepare potato soufle and bake turnips.

  7. Stuff cabbage and cook until tender.

  8. Serve beets, lima beans, dried corn, and canned peas as sides.

  9. Bake biscuits, French rolls, rye bread, and Indian bread.

  10. Prepare chicken salad and serve with cold sliced ham.

  11. Garnish cold slaw with fried oysters.

  12. Offer pickled walnuts and a variety of pickles.

  13. Serve sweet pickled cucumbers, peaches, and plums.

  14. Include spiced currants and gooseberries.

  15. Offer canned pears and strawberries.

  16. Prepare English plum pudding, chess pie, potato pie, and mince pie for dessert.

  17. Make orange soufflé, pyramid pound cake, black cake, and Phil Sheridan cake.

  18. Serve Bohemian cream with oranges, raisins, figs, and nuts.

  19. Provide tea, coffee, and chocolate to drink.

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 + turniptop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together562 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Oyster + crabtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together95 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  3. Sauce + crabtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together238 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Oyster + venisontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together47 recipes

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

  5. Venison + curranttop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together443 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (oyster, turkey, sauce, venison, crab, potato, turnip):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Applefits better
  3. Limefits better
  4. Currantthe original

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