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Why it works: Potato and asparagus match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 217 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Dinner

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare blue points by shucking oysters and serving with crackers.

  2. Make tomato soup by cooking tomatoes until soft, then blending.

  3. Cook French tenderloins in a skillet until browned.

  4. Roast turkey in the oven until fully cooked.

  5. Prepare cranberry sauce by cooking cranberries with sugar and water.

  6. Make giblet gravy using turkey drippings and giblets.

  7. Boil and mash potatoes, adding butter and salt to taste.

  8. Chill pineapple sherbet before serving.

  9. Steam white asparagus and serve with mayonnaise.

  10. Cook spaghetti according to package instructions and serve au gratin.

  11. Slice fruit cake and serve with white grapes, nuts, and dates.

  12. Serve St. Julien claret and coffee with the meal.

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 + asparagustop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together217 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Tomato + potatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,798 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Cranberry + pineappletop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together92 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  4. Tomato + asparagustop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together313 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Tomato + cranberrytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together66 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 pineapple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (oyster, tomato, turkey, cranberry, sauce, potato, asparagus):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Pineapplethe original

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

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