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Dinner for 12 Persons. January.

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 21 ingredients
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Why it works: Haddock and sauce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 200 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Dinner for 12 Persons. January.

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare Flemish clear soup.

  2. Make mock turtle soup.

  3. Cook soles in Norman matelotte.

  4. Prepare haddocks with egg sauce.

  5. Roast pheasants à la Dauphinoise.

  6. Make oyster patties.

  7. Prepare boudins of fowl à la Richelieu.

  8. Make salmis of woodcocks à l'ancienne.

  9. Prepare scollops of sweetbreads à la Villeroi.

  10. Cook larks.

  11. Make ginger pudding.

  12. Prepare soufflé of arrow-root.

  13. Make charlotte of apples.

  14. Prepare macaroni au gratin.

  15. Make D'Artois of strawberry jam.

  16. Prepare maraschino jelly.

  17. Make Italian cream.

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. Haddock + saucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together200 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Ginger + celerytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together988 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Egg + oystertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,103 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Sauce + oystertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Mutton + oystertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together317 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the ginger

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (haddock, egg, sauce, pheasant, mutton, oyster, celery):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Nutmegfits better
  4. Gingerthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against haddock, egg, sauce, pheasant, mutton, oyster, celery. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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