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Dinner for 8 Persons, June

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Why it works: Lamb and rabbit share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 51 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Dinner for 8 Persons, June

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the fish and eels with piquant sauce.

  2. Fry the ox-piths in batter and serve with tomato sauce.

  3. Cook the chickens in the style of l'Espagnole.

  4. Boil the neck of mutton until tender.

  5. Breadcrumb the lamb cutlets and fry them.

  6. Sauté the young rabbits with fine herbs and serve with green peas.

  7. Prepare an Italian salad as a side dish.

  8. Roast the quails until golden.

  9. Make fritters and serve them hot.

  10. Cook French beans with cream.

  11. Prepare peach jelly and serve garnished with fresh peaches.

  12. Make crayfish in the style of Poulette.

  13. Bake queen's cakes and serve them as dessert.

  14. Prepare quenelles of rabbit in consomme.

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. Lamb + rabbittop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together51 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Chicken + lambtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together626 recipes

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

  3. Mutton + lambtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together598 recipes

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

  4. Tomato + chickentop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,031 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Tomato + peastop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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 (fish, sauce, tomato, chicken, mutton, lamb, rabbit):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Peasthe original
  3. Peanutfits about as well
  4. Chickpeafits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against fish, sauce, tomato, chicken, mutton, lamb, rabbit. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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