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Dinner for 12 Persons. January.

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Why it works: Beef and pheasant work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 131 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Dinner for 12 Persons. January.

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare a clear soup and serve it as the first course.

  2. Make a puree of carrots and serve it next.

  3. Cook fillets of whitings and serve with a sauce.

  4. Prepare a John-dory with Dutch sauce.

  5. Braised fillet of beef should be served with Madeira sauce.

  6. Cook a poulard and serve it as the main dish.

  7. Prepare boudins of pheasant and serve them.

  8. Cook fillets of pigeons and serve them.

  9. Prepare mutton cutlets and serve them.

  10. Make marrow patties with fine herbs sauce and serve.

  11. Cook teal and serve as a dish.

  12. Finish with a brown-bread souffle.

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Beef + muttontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,373 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Carrot + beeftop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,606 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Mutton + breadtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,488 recipes

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

  5. Beef + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,032 recipes

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

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

Swap the carrot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (whiting, beef, pheasant, mutton, bread):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Leekfits better
  3. Tomatofits better
  4. Carrotthe original

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

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