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Dinner, No. 1

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 17 ingredients
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Why it works: Peas and lettuce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,293 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Dinner, No. 1

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the tomato soup and serve with croutons.

  2. Roast the turkey and prepare giblet sauce.

  3. Serve cranberries alongside the turkey.

  4. Prepare corn oysters and French peas as sides.

  5. Make Roman punch for a beverage.

  6. Broil the woodcock until cooked through.

  7. Bake macaroni and cheese until golden.

  8. Toss lettuce salad with mayonnaise.

  9. Serve English plum pudding with brandy sauce.

  10. Offer crackers and coffee to finish 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. Peas + lettucetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,293 recipes

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

  2. Tomato + corntop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,099 recipes

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

  3. Tomato + lettucetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,655 recipes

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

  4. Tomato + peastop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,058 recipes

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

  5. Corn + lettucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together270 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tomato, turkey, sauce, corn, oyster, cheese, lettuce):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Chestnutfits better
  3. Sesamefits about as well
  4. Peasthe original

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

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