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A dinner featuring a roasted turkey poult, boiled ham, lobster, rhubarb tart, and cheese.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Turkey and ham work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 303 recipes. Both carry trans-2-decenal, which smells waxy, orange. The science ↓

Dinner

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Roast the turkey poult until fully cooked.

  2. Boil the ham until tender.

Make the sides and dessert

  1. Prepare bashaws of lobster by cooking and serving with butter.

  2. Make a rhubarb tart using the pastry and rhubarb.

  3. Serve cheese as a side.

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.

Explore the science

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. Turkey + hamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together303 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  2. Turkey + cheesetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together50 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Ham + cheesetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together303 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  4. Ham + lobstertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together82 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  5. Lobster + cheesetop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together52 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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

What each ingredient does

Turkey poult
Provides the main roasted meat, which must be cooked through to be safe to eat.
Boiled ham
Adds savory, salty flavor and a tender texture after boiling.
Lobster
Contributes sweet, rich seafood flavor, complemented by butter.
Rhubarb
Brings tart acidity that balances sweetness in the filling.
Pastry
Forms the crisp, buttery shell that holds the rhubarb filling.

Swap the rhubarb

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turkey, ham, lobster, cheese):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Celeryfits better
  3. Pepperfits better
  4. Rhubarbthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against turkey, ham, lobster, cheese. 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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