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Dinner for 10 Persons

A dinner for ten featuring macaroni soup, boiled turbot, salmon cutlets, pigeons compote, mutton cutlets, lamb roast, calf head, tongue, brains, bacon-cheek, spinach, and vegetables.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Turbot and sauce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 248 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Dinner for 10 Persons

serves 10

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare macaroni soup by boiling macaroni in salted water until tender.

  2. Serve boiled turbot with lobster sauce.

  3. Prepare salmon cutlets by cooking salmon and cutting into portions.

  4. Make compote of pigeons by cooking pigeons and serving with sauce.

  5. Cook mutton cutlets and serve with tomato sauce.

  6. Roast lamb until cooked through.

  7. Boil half calf's head, tongue, and brains until tender.

  8. Boil bacon-cheek and garnish with spinach.

  9. Serve assorted vegetables as sides.

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. Turbot + saucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together248 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Turbot + lobstertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together163 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

  3. Lobster + saucetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,095 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Tomato + spinachtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,350 recipes

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

  5. Mutton + lambtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together598 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the spinach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turbot, lobster, sauce, salmon, mutton, tomato, lamb):

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Cucumberfits better
  3. Capsicumfits about as well
  4. Spinachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against turbot, lobster, sauce, salmon, mutton, tomato, lamb. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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