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Breakfast for 12 or More Persons

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 22 ingredients
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Why it works: Lamb and rabbit share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 51 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Breakfast for 12 or More Persons

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the Target of Lamb as the centerpiece.

  2. Arrange the cold by-dishes: Pickled Gherkins, Preserved Tunny Fish, Fillets of Anchovies, Bayonne Goose, Potted Hare, and Pickled Os Palates.

  3. Serve the hot by-dishes: Small Patties of Shrimps, Haunches of Rabbits en papillote, Smoked Salmon, Lambs’ Tongues with Parmesan, Trout Cutlets, and White Puddings.

  4. Include the entrees: Veal Cutlets, Curried Chicken, Smelts, and Duck Pie.

  5. Finish with an omelette of veal kidney and young potatoes au naturel.

  6. Add cream cheese and candied fruit for dessert.

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. Lamb + rabbittop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together51 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Lamb + chickentop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together626 recipes

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

  3. Rabbit + chickentop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together339 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Fish + salmontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,078 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  5. Shrimp + chickentop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together988 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

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