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Dinner for 28 Persons

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 33 ingredients
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Why it works: Sauce and whiting 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 28 Persons

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare jardiniere soup.

  2. Make bisque of prawns.

  3. Prepare turtle soup.

  4. Crimp trout and serve with lobster sauce.

  5. Cook sturgeon and serve.

  6. Prepare fillets of whitings.

  7. Make marrow patties with fine herbs.

  8. Roast baron of lamb.

  9. Braised small ribs of beef.

  10. Prepare braised ham and garnish with French beans.

  11. Braised mutton cutlets.

  12. Prepare fillets of fowls and pigeons, garnished with ragout.

  13. Cook veal kernels and garnish with green peas.

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 + whitingtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together236 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Lamb + beeftop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together896 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  3. Lobster + whitingtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together73 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Lobster + saucetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,095 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Sturgeon + whitingtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together16 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lobster, sauce, sturgeon, whiting, lamb, beef, ham):

  1. Beansthe original
  2. Peasfits about as well
  3. Pistachiofits less well
  4. Almondfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against lobster, sauce, sturgeon, whiting, lamb, beef, ham. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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