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Dinner for 16 Persons

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 21 ingredients
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Why it works: Haddock and lobster work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 31 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Dinner for 16 Persons

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare calf's feet a la Windsor.

  2. Cook fillets of soles a la Venitienne.

  3. Broil haddocks and serve with Dutch sauce.

  4. Prepare capon a la Toulouse.

  5. Cook rump of beef a la Jardiniere.

  6. Make croustades of ox-piths a la Monglas.

  7. Bread-crumb mutton cutlets and serve with a border of rice and puree of chestnuts.

  8. Prepare fillets of fowls with truffles.

  9. Make rabbit boudins a la D'Artois.

  10. Prepare salmis of widgeon a la Bigarrade.

  11. Serve snipes and parmesan fritters.

  12. Prepare lobster salad and kirschen-wasser jelly.

  13. Make mushrooms au gratin.

  14. Cook potatoes a la maitre d'hotel.

  15. Prepare pears a la Conde.

  16. Sauté Brussels sprouts with butter.

  17. Make darioles a la Vanille.

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. Haddock + lobstertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together31 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Rice + chestnuttop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together169 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Beef + rabbittop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together252 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Beef + muttontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,373 recipes

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

  5. Beef + ricetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,265 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

Swap the chestnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (haddock, beef, mutton, rice, truffle, rabbit, lobster):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Peasfits better
  3. Walnutfits about as well
  4. Chestnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against haddock, beef, mutton, rice, truffle, rabbit, lobster. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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