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Dinner for 24 Persons

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 32 ingredients
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Why it works: Turnip and spinach match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 320 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Dinner for 24 Persons

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare a puree of turnips.

  2. Cook barley in consomme.

  3. Prepare salmon with Dutch sauce.

  4. Fry smelts.

  5. Prepare calf's head in Financiere style.

  6. Cook chickens in Montmorency style.

  7. Prepare fillet of beef in Napolitaine style.

  8. Serve Grenada ham with spinach.

  9. Prepare lamb cutlets in Chevreuse style.

  10. Cook fillets of woodcocks in Valençay style.

  11. Prepare scallops of fowls with cucumbers.

  12. Make timbales of macaroni in Chasseur style.

  13. Cook partridges with cheese.

  14. Prepare croquante of ratafias.

  15. Serve wild ducks.

  16. Prepare iced pudding in Prince Albert style.

  17. Make French truffles with champagne.

  18. Scallop oysters in small shells.

  19. Prepare aspic in Reine style.

  20. Make Bavarian cream of preserved raspberries.

  21. Prepare mosaic tartlets of apricots.

  22. Make macedoine jelly.

  23. Braise celery in Espagnole style.

  24. Cook broccoli with Bechamel sauce.

  25. Prepare mayonnaise of fillets of soles.

  26. Make pineapple jelly.

  27. Prepare Neapolitan cake in Chantilly style.

  28. Make Charlotte in Russe style.

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. Turnip + spinachtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together320 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Turnip + barleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together629 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Chicken + beeftop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,148 recipes

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

  4. Barley + spinachtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together47 recipes

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

  5. Barley + beeftop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together458 recipes

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

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

Swap the turnip

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (barley, salmon, smelt, chicken, beef, ham, spinach):

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Onionfits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Turnipthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against barley, salmon, smelt, chicken, beef, ham, spinach. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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