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Dinner for 8 Persons. February.

A dinner for eight featuring roasted capon, rice, braised mutton, broiled whitings, veal cutlets, potato chips, apple pudding, orange jelly, and truffles.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Whiting and sauce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 236 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Dinner for 8 Persons. February.

Dinner for 8 Persons

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mains

  1. Prepare the capon by seasoning it with salt and roasting it until cooked through.

  2. Cook the rice according to package instructions and serve alongside the capon.

  3. Braise the leg of mutton until tender and serve with a sauce of your choice.

  4. Broil the whitings and serve with capers' sauce.

  5. Prepare the veal cutlets by frying them until golden brown.

Make the sides and dessert

  1. Make potato chips by slicing potatoes thinly and frying until crispy.

  2. For dessert, bake an apple pudding using breadcrumbs, milk, and butter.

  3. Serve orange jelly as a refreshing side.

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. Whiting + saucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together236 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Sauce + potato chiptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together18 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Whiting + lobstertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together73 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Whiting + potato chiptop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1 recipe

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Capon
Roasting cooks the bird through, with salt seasoning the meat.
Leg of mutton
Braising over long, moist heat breaks down connective tissue so the meat becomes tender.
Veal cutlets
Frying in fat browns the surface, adding color and savory flavor.
Breadcrumbs
Provide body and structure to the apple pudding, helping it hold together.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, contributing flavor and a tender texture to the pudding.
Milk
Adds moisture and richness to the apple pudding batter.

The step that matters

Braise the leg of mutton until tender. Braising needs low, moist heat over a long time. Cooking too fast or too dry leaves tough meat, because collagen only softens into gelatin slowly in liquid.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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