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Dinner for 6 Persons. March.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Capers and jerusalem artichoke share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Dinner for 6 Persons. March.

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare potato soup with cream.

  2. Fry fillets of salmon and serve with capers' sauce.

  3. Braised neck of mutton.

  4. Make lark pudding.

  5. Prepare timbale of raviolis.

  6. Roast duckling.

  7. Serve Jerusalem artichokes.

  8. Make cherry bread and fill with raspberry jam.

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. Capers + jerusalem artichoketop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Potato + chickentop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,756 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).

  3. Potato + jerusalem artichoketop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together32 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Potato + caperstop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together224 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Capers + cherrytop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together97 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, cream, salmon, capers, mutton, chicken, jerusalem artichoke):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Pumpkinfits better
  4. Cherrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, cream, salmon, capers, mutton, chicken, jerusalem artichoke. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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