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Dinner for 12 Persons

A multi-course dinner for twelve featuring oysters, soup, fish, meat, vegetables, and dessert.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 17 ingredients
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Why it works: Asparagus and peas match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 808 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Dinner for 12 Persons

serves 12

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Serve 5 or 6 Blue Point oysters on a plate.

  2. Prepare Julienne soup or puree of chicken or asparagus.

  3. Follow with a course of fish.

  4. Serve chicken or mushroom patties.

  5. For filet de boeuf, use 5 or 6 pounds of fillet.

  6. Garnish with mushrooms or asparagus and French potatoes in spring.

  7. Prepare macaroni timbale.

  8. Lard and roast sweetbreads, serving with peas.

  9. Serve supreme of chicken.

  10. Finish with salad, cheese, ices, fruits, and 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. Asparagus + peastop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together808 recipes

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

  2. Asparagus + potatotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together217 recipes

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

  3. Chicken + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

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

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

  5. Beef + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Sweetbreads
Lard and roasting give them a browned exterior and a tender interior.
Fillet of beef
A lean, tender cut that carries the main meat course of the dinner.

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (oyster, chicken, fish, beef, mushroom, asparagus, potato):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against oyster, chicken, fish, beef, mushroom, asparagus, potato. 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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