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DINNER—No, 1

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 22 ingredients
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Why it works: Turkey and quail share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 28 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

DINNER—No, 1

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the oyster soup with celery and serve it as the first course.

  2. Serve cold ham sandwiches alongside the soup.

  3. Offer ice cream as a refreshing dessert.

  4. Roast the turkey until fully cooked and serve as the second course.

  5. Boil sweet and Irish potatoes until tender.

  6. Prepare quail on toast for the third course.

  7. Serve pickles, escalloped tomatoes, and macaroni as sides.

  8. Make croquettes of rice and serve with seasonal vegetables.

  9. Finish the meal with almond pudding, mince pie, lemon pie, cheese, fruits, nuts, and coffee.

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. Turkey + quailtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together28 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Celery + potatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Celery + sweet potatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together162 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Oyster + hamtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together360 recipes

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

  5. Potato + quailtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together34 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 sweet potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (oyster, celery, ham, cream, turkey, potato, quail):

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Mustardfits better
  3. Onionfits better
  4. Sweet potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against oyster, celery, ham, cream, turkey, potato, quail. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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