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Dinner for 8 Persons

A menu of multiple dishes for eight people, including soups, fish, meats, vegetables, desserts, and side dishes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 18 ingredients
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Why it works: Sauce and lobster are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,095 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Dinner for 8 Persons

for 8

Ingredients

Directions

Start the first courses

  1. Prepare calf's head soup.

  2. Cook brill and serve with shrimp sauce.

  3. Broil mackerel with maître d'hôtel sauce.

  4. Make lobster cutlets.

Roast and boil the meats

  1. Roast the loin of veal.

  2. Boil the fowls and serve with béchamel sauce.

  3. Boil the knuckle of ham.

  4. Prepare vegetables like spinach or broccoli.

  5. Roast wild ducks.

Make the desserts

  1. Make apple custards and blancmange.

  2. Prepare lemon jelly and jam sandwiches.

  3. Make ice pudding and serve potatoes with butter and parsley.

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. Sauce + lobstertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,095 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Spinach + lemontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,109 recipes

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

  3. Shrimp + lobstertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together403 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  4. Apple + lemontop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,551 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Veal + hamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,264 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Butter
Adds richness and flavour to the potatoes.
Lemon jelly
Sets into a firm, wobbly texture as it cools.
Blancmange
Sets into a smooth, soft texture as it cools.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (shrimp, sauce, lobster, veal, ham, spinach, lemon):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against shrimp, sauce, lobster, veal, ham, spinach, lemon. 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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