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Dinner for 12 Persons

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 23 ingredients
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Why it works: Whiting and sauce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 236 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Dinner for 12 Persons

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare game soup and clear vermicelli soup.

  2. Make codfish au gratin and fillets of whitings à la maître d'hôtel.

  3. Cook fillet of beef with sauce piquante.

  4. Fry chicken and prepare oyster patties.

  5. Make curried prawn.

  6. Roast turkey and sausages.

  7. Boil leg of pork with vegetables.

  8. Roast goose and stew beef à la jardinière.

  9. Prepare widgeon and partridges.

  10. Make Charlotte aux pêches, mince pies, orange jelly, lemon cream, apple tart, and cabinet pudding.

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. Whiting + saucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together236 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Beef + porktop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,690 recipes

    Shared aroma: 12-methyltridecanal (tallowy, beefy).

  3. Chicken + porktop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,417 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  4. Beef + chickentop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,148 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  5. Chicken + turkeytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together688 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (whiting, beef, sauce, chicken, oyster, turkey, pork):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Grapefits better
  3. Applefits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against whiting, beef, sauce, chicken, oyster, turkey, pork. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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