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Picnic Lunch

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 34 ingredients
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Why it works: Lettuce and rye share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 23 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Picnic Lunch

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare egg, olive, and lettuce sandwiches.

  2. Make rye tea biscuits with minced ham and cress filling.

  3. Bake a fruit cake.

  4. Serve cold roasted chicken with olives and green onions.

  5. Prepare buttered corn-wheat rolls.

  6. Make sponge cake with fresh strawberry filling.

  7. Grill bacon and serve with whole wheat bread.

  8. Serve ripe bananas and lemonade.

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. Lettuce + ryetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together23 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Olive + lettucetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,580 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  3. Rye + flourtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,320 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Olive + ryetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together98 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  5. Lettuce + flourtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,236 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the lettuce

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, olive, ham, rye, flour, tea, butter):

  1. Mustardfits about as well
  2. Lettucethe original
  3. Potatofits about as well
  4. Asparagusfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, olive, ham, rye, flour, tea, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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