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Game Sandwiches

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Meat and celery are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,880 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Game Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the roasted game meat into very thin slices.

  2. Shred some celery.

  3. Lay the meat on crisp, fresh toast.

  4. Strew the celery over the meat.

  5. Season well with tartar sauce.

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. Meat + celerytop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,880 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Meat + saucetop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,167 recipes
  3. Celery + saucetop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,360 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, sauce):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Garlicfits about as well
  3. Thymefits about as well
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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