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Dinner for 16 Persons. April.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 26 ingredients
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Why it works: Turbot and sauce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 248 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Dinner for 16 Persons. April.

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare macaroni clear soup.

  2. Make puree of spinach.

  3. Cook crimped turbot with lobster sauce.

  4. Prepare matelotte of eels a la Bordelaise.

  5. Braised saddle of lamb a la Jardinière.

  6. Cook mutton cutlets with new potatoes.

  7. Prepare sweetbreads larded a la Parisienne.

  8. Cook fillets of pigeons a la Dauphine.

  9. Prepare fillets of ducklings a la Bigarade.

  10. Serve French beans and quenelles of fowl a la Perigueux.

  11. Prepare quails au gratin with Financière sauce.

  12. Lard the peahen and serve.

  13. Prepare green goose and brioche with cheese.

  14. Make chocolate soufflé.

  15. Serve asparagus with white sauce and French beans a la Poulette.

  16. Prepare macédoine jelly, pudding a la Prince de Galles, vanilla cream, and apricot tartlets.

  17. Make porcupine of apples with meringues and lobster salad.

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. Turbot + saucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together248 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Turbot + lobstertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together163 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

  3. Spinach + potatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together646 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  4. Lobster + saucetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,095 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Lamb + muttontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together598 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the spinach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turbot, lobster, sauce, lamb, shrimp, mutton, potato):

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Chivefits about as well
  3. Onionfits about as well
  4. Spinachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against turbot, lobster, sauce, lamb, shrimp, mutton, potato. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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