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Dinner for 18 Persons

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 33 ingredients
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Why it works: Mushroom and chicken are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,172 recipes. Both carry 1-butyl acetate, which smells fruity, banana. The science ↓

Dinner for 18 Persons

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the consomme of fowl and add quenelles.

  2. Make a puree of green peas.

  3. Prepare water-souchet with fillets of soles.

  4. Cook sturgeon a la Cardinal.

  5. Prepare kromesky of lobsters.

  6. Cook poulards a la Parisienne.

  7. Roast the haunch of venison.

  8. Breadcrumb lamb cutlets and serve with puree of artichokes.

  9. Prepare fillets of pigeons a la de Luynes with a macedoine of vegetables.

  10. Make pate-chaud of leverets a la Périgueux.

  11. Prepare scollops of sweetbreads a la Maréchale with puree of mushrooms.

  12. Cook fricassee of spring chickens a la Bourguignonne.

  13. Serve green goose and quails.

  14. Serve hot brioche with cheese.

  15. Prepare vol-au-vent with currants and raspberries, served with iced custard cream.

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. Mushroom + chickentop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

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

  2. Lamb + chickentop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together626 recipes

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

  3. Peas + artichoketop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together180 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Artichoke + mushroomtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together447 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Peas + mushroomtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together890 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sturgeon, lobster, venison, lamb, artichoke, mushroom, chicken):

  1. Beansfits about as well
  2. Peasthe original
  3. Chestnutfits about as well
  4. Lentilsfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against sturgeon, lobster, venison, lamb, artichoke, mushroom, chicken. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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