Skip to main content

Cold Dinners for Winter

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 26 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Pork and chicken match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,417 recipes. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓

Cold Dinners for Winter

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Serve cold boiled pork with mustard and vinegar.

  2. Accompany with cold baked beans.

  3. Prepare yeast biscuits and serve with butter.

  4. Include cold chicken and pickles.

  5. Offer cold rice pudding as a dessert.

  6. Serve cold soda biscuits with veal and ham sandwiches.

  7. Add Saratoga potatoes and mince pie.

  8. Present cold corn beef with rye bread.

  9. Include dried apple tarts and cheese.

  10. Serve smoked herring and pickled beans.

  11. Offer gingerbread and corn bread with butter.

  12. Present cold roast beef with white bread.

  13. Include bread and apple pudding and bread cake.

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.

Explore the science

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. Pork + chickentop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,417 recipes

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

  2. Beans + mustardtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together852 recipes

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

  3. Beans + ricetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,017 recipes

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

  4. Mustard + biscuittop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together121 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Chicken + ricetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,769 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

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

Swap the beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, mustard, vinegar, biscuit, butter, chicken, rice):

  1. Sesamefits about as well
  2. Beansthe original
  3. Peanutfits about as well
  4. Cashew nutfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, mustard, vinegar, biscuit, butter, chicken, rice. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

You might also like

Potato BiscuitPotato Biscuit32 recipesRice and Cheese CasseroleRice and Cheese Casserole23 recipesCheese RiceCheese Rice12 recipesBeef, Mutton, or Veal BrothBeef, Mutton, or Veal Broth6 recipes