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Dinner for 8 Persons. November.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 25 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Dinner for 8 Persons. November.

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare pearl barley soup by cooking pearl barley in water with a pinch of salt until tender. Stir in butter and cream before serving.

  2. Cook salmon and serve with tartare sauce.

  3. Prepare fillets of soles with sauce ravigotte.

  4. Roast the neck of venison until cooked through.

  5. Cook black pudding according to package instructions.

  6. Prepare boudins of pheasant and serve with sauce Dauphine.

  7. Fricassée the chickens and serve with Soubise sauce.

  8. Scallop oysters and bake until golden.

  9. Roast woodcocks until done.

  10. Make iced rice pudding and serve chilled.

  11. Prepare eggs with a sauce Aurore.

  12. Serve apple cheese with custard.

  13. Sauté spinach in cream.

  14. Prepare potatoes with Hollandaise sauce.

  15. Make orange pudding and serve with meringues.

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. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Pheasant + chickentop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together130 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Salmon + venisontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together33 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Barley + chickentop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together265 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

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