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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Olive and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,458 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Dinner

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Serve raw oysters on a platter.

  2. Prepare black bean soup according to your favorite recipe.

  3. Make pigeon pie using cooked pigeon and pastry.

  4. Serve olives as a side dish.

  5. Boil the leg of mutton until tender.

  6. Prepare caper sauce by mixing capers with melted butter.

  7. Boil potatoes until soft, then mash or serve whole.

  8. Make cream dressing by mixing cream with seasonings.

  9. Prepare macaroni au gratin by baking macaroni with cheese and cream.

  10. Toss chicken salad with dressing and serve chilled.

  11. Serve porcupine pudding as a dessert.

  12. Arrange fruit and nuts on a serving platter.

  13. Brew and serve coffee.

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. Olive + potatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,458 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Potato + chickentop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,756 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).

  3. Olive + chickentop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,888 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid hexyl ester (sweet, green).

  4. Sauce + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Potato + nutstop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together54 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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 (oyster, olive, mutton, sauce, potato, cream, chicken):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Peanutfits better
  3. Sesamefits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against oyster, olive, mutton, sauce, potato, cream, chicken. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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