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Lunch No. 3

A lunch featuring raw oysters with lemon and crackers, cold veal with jelly and Saratoga potatoes, bread and butter, and cherry pie with cheese.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Lunch No. 3

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Serve raw oysters with lemon and crackers.

  2. Serve cold veal with jelly and Saratoga potatoes.

  3. Serve bread and butter.

  4. Serve cherry pie with cheese for dessert.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Bread + cheesetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Lemon + cherrytop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,301 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Potato + cherrytop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together241 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

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

What each ingredient does

Raw oysters
Serve as the raw seafood course, the main element of the first course.
Cold veal
Provides the substantial meat element of the lunch.
Cherry pie
Provides sweetness and fruit flavor for the dessert course.
Cheese
Adds savory richness that pairs with the sweet cherry pie.

Swap the cherry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (oyster, lemon, veal, potato, bread, butter, cheese):

  1. Figfits better
  2. Applefits about as well
  3. Grapefits about as well
  4. Cherrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against oyster, lemon, veal, potato, bread, butter, cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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