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Breakfast for 10 or 12 Persons

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Oyster and caviar work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 16 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Breakfast for 10 or 12 Persons

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the ribs of beef by rolling them.

  2. Serve pickled oysters, shrimps, and radishes as cold by-dishes.

  3. Cook plovers’ eggs a la coque.

  4. Prepare a piece of salmon au bleu and glaze the Bayonne ham.

  5. Serve Russian caviar and fish croquettes hot.

  6. Grill sheep’s kidneys and prepare small patties of chicken.

  7. Make mayonnaise of turbot and blanquette of lamb.

  8. Prepare a raised pie of pigeons and broil fillets of mackerel.

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. Oyster + caviartop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together16 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Oyster + salmontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together672 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  3. Salmon + caviartop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42 recipes

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

  4. Oyster + shrimptop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together531 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  5. Egg + caviartop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together101 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the radish

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, oyster, shrimp, egg, salmon, ham, caviar):

  1. Cucumberfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Radishthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, oyster, shrimp, egg, salmon, ham, caviar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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