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Dinner, Twelve Covers

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 21 ingredients
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Why it works: Cucumber and cauliflower match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 584 recipes. Both carry 2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Dinner, Twelve Covers

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Serve canned Julienne soup and bread sticks.

  2. Prepare cutlets of salmon and serve with potatoes au naturel and cucumber salad.

  3. Make chicken croquettes and Maraschino punch.

  4. Cook fillet of beef and serve with potatoes a la neige and cauliflower.

  5. Prepare quail with aspic jelly, celery salad, and cheese sticks.

  6. Serve shells of ice cream with ice strawberries and assorted cake.

  7. Finish with coffee, fruit, bon-bons, and nuts if desired.

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. Cucumber + cauliflowertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together584 recipes

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

  2. Chicken + beeftop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,148 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

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

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

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

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  5. Chicken + quailtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together135 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the cauliflower

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, salmon, potato, cucumber, chicken, beef, quail):

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Tomatofits better
  4. Cauliflowerthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, salmon, potato, cucumber, chicken, beef, quail. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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