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Dinner for 18 Persons

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 34 ingredients
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Why it works: Lobster and whiting work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 73 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Dinner for 18 Persons

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the consomme of fowl and serve with quenelles.

  2. Make a puree of green peas.

  3. Prepare water-souchet with fillets of soles.

  4. Cook sturgeon and serve.

  5. Make kromeskys of lobsters.

  6. Prepare poulards and serve.

  7. Roast the haunch of venison.

  8. Make a mazarine of fillets of whitings.

  9. Breadcrumb and cook lamb-cutlets, serve with puree of artichokes.

  10. Prepare fillets of pigeons with a macedoine of vegetables.

  11. Make pate'-chaud of leverets.

  12. Prepare scollops of sweetbreads with puree of mushrooms.

  13. Cook fricassee of spring chickens.

  14. Roast green-goose and quails.

  15. Serve brioche with cheese hot.

  16. Make vol’au’vent filled with currants and raspberries, serve with iced custard-cream.

  17. Prepare young broad-beans.

  18. Make bavarian cream of pistachios.

  19. Farcied cucumbers with espanol sauce.

  20. Prepare panachee jelly.

  21. Make Italian salad in a border of aspic-jelly.

  22. Prepare almond gauffres filled with strawberries.

  23. Cook darne of salmon and serve with Montpellier butter and cream.

  24. Make a German tourte of apricots.

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. Lobster + whitingtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together73 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Peas + artichoketop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together180 recipes

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

  3. Artichoke + mushroomtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together447 recipes

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

  4. Peas + mushroomtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together890 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Sturgeon + whitingtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together16 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sturgeon, lobster, venison, whiting, lamb, artichoke, mushroom):

  1. Beansfits about as well
  2. Peasthe original
  3. Chestnutfits about as well
  4. Lentilsfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against sturgeon, lobster, venison, whiting, lamb, artichoke, mushroom. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.