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Dinner for 16 Persons. January.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 25 ingredients
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Why it works: Rabbit and pheasant share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 55 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Dinner for 16 Persons. January.

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the calf's feet and cook them according to your preferred method.

  2. Pan-fry the fillets of soles until golden brown.

  3. Broil the haddocks and serve with Dutch sauce.

  4. Roast the capon until fully cooked.

  5. Cook the rump of beef and serve with Jardinibre sauce.

  6. Make crustades of ox-piths and serve them hot.

  7. Bread-crumb the mutton cutlets and fry until crispy.

  8. Cook rice and serve as a border around the mutton cutlets.

  9. Prepare a puree of chestnuts and use it as a garnish.

  10. Cook the fillets of fowls with truffles and serve with sauce.

  11. Prepare boudins of rabbit and serve them hot.

  12. Cook the salmis of widgeon and serve with sauce.

  13. Roast the pheasants and snipes until done.

  14. Prepare an apricot soufflé for dessert.

  15. Make parmesan fritters and serve them warm.

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. Rabbit + pheasanttop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together55 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Rice + chestnuttop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together169 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Chestnut + pheasanttop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together28 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Beef + pheasanttop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together131 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Beef + rabbittop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together252 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the chestnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (haddock, beef, mutton, rice, truffle, rabbit, pheasant):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Chestnutthe original
  3. Peasfits about as well
  4. Lentilsfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against haddock, beef, mutton, rice, truffle, rabbit, pheasant. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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