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Dinner for 12 Persons. October.

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 18 ingredients
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Why it works: Rabbit and pheasant share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 55 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Dinner for 12 Persons. October.

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare Brilnoise soup.

  2. Make hare soup a la St. George.

  3. Cook fillets of whitings a la Royale.

  4. Bake gurnets and serve with Piquanto sauce.

  5. Roast capon and serve with rice.

  6. Prepare salmis of woodcocks a la Minute.

  7. Sauté fillets of beef in their glaze.

  8. Make polpettes of rabbit a l'Italienne.

  9. Grill and mince fowl a la Bechamel.

  10. Prepare larks.

  11. Bake Coburg cake.

  12. Roast pheasants.

  13. Make iced pudding a la Duchess of Kent.

  14. Serve spinach au jus.

  15. Prepare apples a la Portuguaise.

  16. Make eggs brouilles with truffles.

  17. Prepare Russian lemon-jelly.

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. Rabbit + pheasanttop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together55 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Whiting + saucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together236 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Rice + spinachtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together518 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  4. Beef + pheasanttop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together131 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Beef + rabbittop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together252 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 spinach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (whiting, sauce, rice, mutton, beef, rabbit, pheasant):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Onionfits better
  3. Leekfits better
  4. Spinachthe original

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

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