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Dinner for 8 or 10 Persons. August

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 16 ingredients
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Dinner for 8 or 10 Persons. August

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare a clear vermicelli soup.

  2. Grill the salmon and serve with tartar sauce.

  3. Roast the leg of lamb until cooked through.

  4. Prepare fowl a la financiere.

  5. Make croquettes of fowl.

  6. Sear fillets of beef and serve with sauce.

  7. Cook pigeons with peas.

  8. Roast grouse until golden.

  9. Prepare a German salad.

  10. Serve Compiegne cake with apricot.

  11. Make pineapple jelly.

  12. Serve peaches with rice.

  13. Cook 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. Apricot + peachtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together342 recipes

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

  2. Apricot + pineappletop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together377 recipes

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

  3. Pineapple + peachtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together168 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Peas + ricetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,434 recipes

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

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

Swap the pineapple

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

  1. Plumfits better
  2. Cherryfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Pineapplethe original

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