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Cauliflower, with Roast Pheasants

A dish of boiled cauliflower served with roast pheasants, cheese, and optional sides of cake, macaroni, fish, or duck with turnips.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Cauliflower and turnip match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 286 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Cauliflower, with Roast Pheasants

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the cauliflower by boiling it until tender.

  2. Serve the cauliflower alongside the roast pheasants.

  3. Add cheese to taste.

  4. Include Thousand Layer Cake and macaroni as sides.

  5. Prepare a matalot of carp and eels, or crimped skate as an alternative.

  6. For the ducks, stew them with turnips until cooked through.

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. Cauliflower + turniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together286 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Pheasant + turniptop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41 recipes

    Shared aroma: geraniol (rose, geranium).

  3. Cauliflower + cheesetop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together171 recipes

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

  4. Cauliflower + pheasanttop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Pheasant + cheesetop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together21 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

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

What each ingredient does

Cauliflower
Forms the main vegetable side, softened by boiling until tender.
Pheasants
Provide the main roasted meat of the dish.
Ducks
Provide meat that is stewed with turnips until cooked through.

Swap the cauliflower

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pheasant, cheese, turnip):

  1. Leekfits better
  2. Mustardfits better
  3. Lettucefits better
  4. Cauliflowerthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pheasant, cheese, turnip. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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