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DInner for 6 or 8 Persons. April.

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Lamb and rabbit share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 51 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

DInner for 6 or 8 Persons. April.

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare crayfish soup with fresh crayfish and parsley.

  2. Boil fowls and serve with oyster sauce.

  3. Glaze tongue and serve with jardiniere vegetables.

  4. Cook lamb cutlets and serve with asparagus and peas.

  5. Prepare boudins of rabbits a la Reine.

  6. Make lobster salad with cooked lobster.

  7. Fry orange fritters until golden brown.

  8. Prepare tapioca pudding according to package instructions.

  9. Make wine jelly and serve chilled.

  10. Cook potatoes 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. Lamb + rabbittop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together51 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Asparagus + peastop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together808 recipes

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

  3. Parsley + asparagustop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together566 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Lamb + asparagustop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together207 recipes

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

  5. Crayfish + saucetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together195 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (crayfish, parsley, oyster, sauce, lamb, asparagus, rabbit):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Peasthe original
  3. Almondfits about as well
  4. Chestnutfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against crayfish, parsley, oyster, sauce, lamb, asparagus, rabbit. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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