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Foe Goose and Pork

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Mushroom and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,719 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Foe Goose and Pork

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Peel, core, and quarter the apples.

  2. In a saucepan, combine sugar and water in equal quantities; for 10 apples, use ¾ cup of each.

  3. Bring the mixture to a boil, removing any scum that forms.

  4. Add the apples, cover, and boil until tender.

  5. Serve the apples in quarters or mash them using a potato ricer.

  6. In a separate pot, combine the brown tomato sauce with the sliced mushrooms.

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. Mushroom + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,719 recipes

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

  2. Apple + tomatotop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together548 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + saucetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,147 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Apple + mushroomtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together226 recipes

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

  5. Tomato + saucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,469 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, mushroom, tomato, sauce):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Cherryfits better
  3. Plumfits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, mushroom, tomato, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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