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Dinner for 18 Persons. November.

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 31 ingredients
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Why it works: Pheasant and rabbit 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 18 Persons. November.

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare macaroni clear soup.

  2. Make purée of celery with cream.

  3. Fry fillets of perch and serve with Dutch sauce.

  4. Prepare carp à la Chambord.

  5. Cook poulards à la Périgueux.

  6. Lard fillets of mutton and serve with Poivrade sauce.

  7. Fill rice crustades with purée of woodcocks.

  8. Make a tourte of Godiveau à la Financière.

  9. Prepare scallops of pheasant à la Victoria.

  10. Cook fillets of rabbit à la D’Uxelles and garnish with Soubise purée.

  11. Prepare supreme of fowls à l'écarlate.

  12. Serve mutton cutlets with purée of potatoes.

  13. For the second course, serve larks and grouse.

  14. Make custard fritters and apple soufflé.

  15. Prepare salsifis with white sauce.

  16. Make calf's feet jelly with grapes.

  17. Cook mushrooms with fine herbs au gratin.

  18. Prepare a timbale of ground rice.

  19. Make Cuiraçao and Bavarian cream.

  20. Prepare puff-paste walnuts.

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. Pheasant + rabbittop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together55 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Celery + potatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Rice + potatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together851 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  4. Celery + ricetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,169 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Celery + appletop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,155 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

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

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (celery, sauce, mutton, rice, pheasant, rabbit, potato):

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

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

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