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Dinner for 12 Persons. October.

Dinner for twelve featuring hare soup, fish fillets, capon, mutton, woodcocks, beef, rabbit, fowl, coburg cake, iced pudding, spinach, apples, eggs, truffles, and lemon jelly.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 18 ingredients
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Why it works: Rabbit and pheasant share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 55 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Dinner for 12 Persons. October.

12 persons

Ingredients

Directions

First course

  1. Prepare the hare soup and serve it as the first course.

  2. Cook the fillets of whiting and serve with a Royale sauce.

  3. Bake the gurnets and accompany with Piquante sauce.

Main courses

  1. Roast the capon and serve with rice.

  2. Roast the haunch of mutton.

  3. Prepare salmis of woodcocks and serve as an entry.

  4. Sauté the beef fillets in their glaze.

  5. Make polpettes of rabbit and serve.

  6. Grill the fowl and serve with Bechamel sauce.

  7. Prepare and serve larks as a second course.

  8. Serve roasted pheasants.

Dessert

  1. Finish with coburg cake and iced pudding.

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. Rabbit + pheasanttop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together55 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Beef + pheasanttop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together131 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Beef + rabbittop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together252 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Mutton + beeftop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,373 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Pheasant + spinachtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together24 recipes

    Shared aroma: geraniol (rose, geranium).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Listed in the record without a stated role in this dish.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (fish, whiting, mutton, beef, rabbit, pheasant, spinach):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Limefits about as well
  3. Coconutfits about as well
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against fish, whiting, mutton, beef, rabbit, pheasant, spinach. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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