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Lunch for One Hundred

A large lunch for one hundred people, including chickens, veal, eggs, biscuits, bread, oysters, ham, potatoes, celery, ice cream, cakes, and coffee.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and ham are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,536 recipes. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓

Lunch for One Hundred

serves 100

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare the chickens and veal for salad.

  2. Stuff the eggs.

  3. Bake the beaten biscuits and cream bread.

  4. Make bread crumbs from stale bread.

  5. Cook the hams.

  6. Mash and brown the potatoes, or prepare potato salad.

  7. Use the best celery for plating and the rest for the salad.

Serve

  1. Serve ice cream in glasses.

  2. Brew the 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. Bread + hamtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  2. Biscuit + breadtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together319 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Bread + oystertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,545 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Chicken + vealtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,243 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-butanedione (buttery, creamy).

  5. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Stuffed eggs give a rich, creamy filling that binds the platter together.
Oysters
Oysters add a briny, savoury flavour and a tender, delicate texture.
Chickens
Cooked chicken supplies the main meat for the salad, bringing protein and mild flavour.
Irish potatoes
Potatoes provide starchy bulk, and browning them adds crisp, golden flavour.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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