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Dejeuner a LA Fourchette

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 22 ingredients
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Why it works: Ginger and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 5,154 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat, tree nuts, fish (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

  1. Prepare potted salmon and decorate it.

  2. Cook partridges and serve with preserved ginger.

  3. Make ginger cream and lemon cakes.

  4. Chill butter and serve it in ice.

  5. Create a caramel basket filled with bon-bons and mottoes.

  6. Prepare pastry sandwiches with marmalade.

  7. Preserve pine, melon, or cucumber as sides.

  8. Prepare ham in jelly and potted char.

  9. Make anchovy butter and strawberry jelly.

  10. Bake meringues and tartlets.

  11. Prepare almond butter and wine jelly.

  12. Serve potted pigeons and tongue in jelly.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Ginger + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,154 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Melon + cucumbertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together142 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  3. Lemon + pinetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together480 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Cream + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Ginger + melontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together342 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the melon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, ginger, cream, lemon, butter, pine, cucumber):

  1. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  2. Limebetter flavor fit
  3. Orangebetter flavor fit
  4. Melonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, ginger, cream, lemon, butter, pine, cucumber. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).