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Sweet Entremets

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 23 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and artichoke match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 636 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Sweet Entremets

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Place finely chopped ice on each soup plate and top with a small fancy napkin.

  2. Arrange oysters or clams on each plate with a piece of lemon and serve.

  3. Serve Haut Sauterne with the oysters or clams.

  4. After guests finish, remove oyster plates and serve soup.

  5. Present a plate of each kind of soup to each guest and ask for their preference.

  6. Serve sherry with the soup.

  7. Serve timbales by placing a spoonful of sauce on each plate, then the timbale.

  8. Remove cold plates while serving fish, placing it on the plates with sauce and a few potatoes.

  9. Serve Rauenthaler-Berg with the fish.

  10. Remove plates and serve fillet of beef, cut into small, even slices, with sauce and artichokes on the same plate.

  11. Serve Pommery Sec with the fillet.

  12. Remove plates and serve saddle of mutton, cut lengthwise and crosswise, with gravy and string beans.

  13. After this course, serve sweetbreads with sauce and peas.

  14. Serve Chateau Latour with the sweetbreads.

  15. Serve terrapin in a very hot tureen, adding fine sherry before serving.

  16. Serve more Chateau Latour with the terrapin.

  17. Finish with sorbet served in glasses or shells.

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. Lemon + artichoketop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together636 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Potato + beeftop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,052 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  3. Oyster + fishtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together496 recipes

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

  4. Potato + artichoketop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together80 recipes

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

  5. Lemon + potatotop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,230 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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