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Sabbath Dinners

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 19 ingredients
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Why it works: Beans and lentils match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 135 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Sabbath Dinners

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare brown bread, fruit bread, and French rolls the day before.

  2. Boil potatoes and warm them up on the Sabbath.

  3. Bake or boil beans in advance.

  4. Cook split peas or lentils, then rub through a colander for soup preparation.

  5. Prepare croutons or rolled crackers ahead of time.

  6. Stew fruit the day before.

  7. Make simple pudding or pie in advance.

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. Beans + lentilstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together135 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Potato + beanstop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together655 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  3. Beans + peastop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together949 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  4. Potato + lentilstop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together151 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Peas + lentilstop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together164 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, potato, cream, beans, peas, lentils):

  1. Chickpeafits better
  2. Chestnutfits better
  3. Lima beansfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, potato, cream, beans, peas, lentils. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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