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Dinner for 8 or 10 Persons

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Pine and artichoke share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 31 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Dinner for 8 or 10 Persons

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare clear vermicelli soup.

  2. Grill salmon a la Tartare.

  3. Roast the leg of lamb.

  4. Prepare fowl a la financiere.

  5. Make croquettes of fowl.

  6. Sauté fillets of beef a la Chateaubriand.

  7. Prepare compote of pigeons with peas.

  8. Make German salad.

  9. Prepare Compiegne cake with apricot.

  10. Make pineapple jelly.

  11. Serve peaches with rice.

  12. Prepare artichokes a la Lyonnaise.

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. Pine + artichoketop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together31 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Apple + peachtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together303 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Lamb + beeftop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together896 recipes

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

  4. Pine + ricetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together156 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Rice + artichoketop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together90 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, lamb, beef, pine, peach, rice, artichoke):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, lamb, beef, pine, peach, rice, artichoke. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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