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Why it works: Whiting and turbot share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 33 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Dinner

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare boiled chickens by cooking them in water until fully cooked.

  2. Stew calves' and sheep's feet until tender.

  3. Make mutton broth by simmering mutton in water with seasonings.

  4. Prepare beet tea by boiling beets in water and straining.

  5. Boil soles, whiting, and turbot until cooked through.

  6. Cook lamb until tender.

  7. Boil potatoes until soft.

  8. Steam or boil asparagus until bright green.

  9. Serve light bread alongside the meal.

  10. Prepare rice pudding according to your favorite recipe.

  11. Roast apples until soft and caramelized.

  12. Serve one glass of Port wine after the meal.

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. Whiting + turbottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together33 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Potato + asparagustop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together217 recipes

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

  3. Chicken + lambtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together626 recipes

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

  4. Chicken + potatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,756 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).

  5. Mutton + lambtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together598 recipes

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

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

Swap the asparagus

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, mutton, tea, whiting, turbot, lamb, potato):

  1. Tomatofits about as well
  2. Asparagusthe original
  3. Onionfits about as well
  4. Spinachfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, mutton, tea, whiting, turbot, lamb, potato. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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