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Dinner for 16 Persons. January.

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 25 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 16 Persons. January.

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare calf's feet a la Windsor.

  2. Cook fillets of soles a la Vdnitienne.

  3. Broil haddocks and serve with Dutch sauce.

  4. Prepare capon a la Toulouse.

  5. Cook rump of beef a la Jardiniere.

  6. Make crustades of ox-piths a la Monglas.

  7. Bread-crumb mutton cutlets and serve with a border of rice and chestnut puree.

  8. Prepare fowls with truffles.

  9. Make Supreme Boudins of rabbit with sauce.

  10. Prepare salmis of widgeon a la Bigarrade.

  11. Serve pheasants as the second course.

  12. Cook snipes.

  13. Make apricot soufflee.

  14. Prepare Parmesan fritters.

  15. Make lobster salad.

  16. Prepare mushrooms au gratin.

  17. Cook potatoes a la maitre d'hotel.

  18. Sauté Brussels sprouts in butter.

  19. Make Kirschen-wasser jelly.

  20. Prepare chocolate cream.

  21. Serve pears a la Conde.

  22. Make darioles a la Vanille.

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. Rice + chestnuttop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together169 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Chestnut + pheasanttop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together28 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the chestnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (haddock, beef, mutton, rice, truffle, rabbit, pheasant):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Chestnutthe original
  3. Peasfits about as well
  4. Lentilsfits less well

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