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Dinner for 8 Persons. June.

A June dinner menu for eight persons, with thirteen dishes ranging from eels and mutton to quails and Queen's cakes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 23 ingredients
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Why it works: Rabbit and quail share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 24 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Dinner for 8 Persons. June.

serves 8

Ingredients

Directions

Fish and offal

  1. Prepare the eels and cook them with piquante sauce.

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

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

Meats and game

  1. Boil the neck of mutton until tender.

  2. Breadcrumb the lamb cutlets and fry them.

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

  4. Roast the quails until golden.

Sides and desserts

  1. Prepare an Italian salad as a side dish.

  2. Make fritters in the style of à la Dauphine.

  3. Cook French beans and serve with cream.

  4. Prepare peach jelly and serve chilled.

  5. Cook crayfish in the style of à la Poulette.

  6. Bake Queen's cakes until golden.

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 + quailtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together24 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Lamb + quailtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together28 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

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

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs (in the method)
Not stated in the record; omitted.

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (fish, sauce, chicken, mutton, lamb, rabbit, quail):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Peasthe original
  3. Almondfits about as well
  4. Walnutfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against fish, sauce, chicken, mutton, lamb, rabbit, quail. 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.