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Dinner for 14 Persons. July.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 20 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and beef match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,148 recipes. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓

Dinner for 14 Persons. July.

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare a spring soup as a starter.

  2. Make cream of pearl-barley and serve it warm.

  3. Cook crimped perch and serve with Dutch sauce.

  4. Prepare salmon as desired.

  5. Make rissoles using lamb’s brains.

  6. Cook chickens in your preferred style.

  7. Roast small ribs of beef.

  8. Prepare greaudins of veal and serve with stewed peas.

  9. Make boudins of whitings with a crayfish tail ragout.

  10. Prepare cutlets of pigeons and serve with a Bourguignotte ragout.

  11. Make a fricassee of chickens.

  12. Roast a capon and leverets.

  13. Prepare puff-paste ramequins.

  14. Make a soufflé pudding using semolina.

  15. Prepare a lobster salad with plovers’ eggs.

  16. Cook artichokes Lyonnaise style.

  17. Make a Charlotte Russe garnished with fruits.

  18. Prepare a vol-au-vent filled with cherries.

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. Chicken + beeftop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,148 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  2. Lamb + beeftop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together896 recipes

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

  3. Lamb + chickentop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together626 recipes

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

  4. Barley + beeftop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together458 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  5. Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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