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Dinner for 16 Persons. September.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Deer and lamb share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Dinner for 16 Persons. September.

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare vermicelli according to package instructions.

  2. Make ox-tail soup by simmering oxtails with vegetables and seasonings.

  3. Cook cod in a béchamel sauce until heated through.

  4. Broil haddocks and serve with Dutch sauce.

  5. Roast fowls and tongue, then serve with steamed cauliflowers.

  6. Roast haunch of red deer until desired doneness.

  7. Breadcrumb fillets of grouse and fry until golden, garnishing with lamb's brains sautéed in butter.

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. Deer + lambtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Cauliflower + lambtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together61 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Haddock + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together764 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Lamb + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Deer + buttertop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20 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 cauliflower

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (haddock, deer, lamb, butter):

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Onionfits better
  3. Chivefits better
  4. Cauliflowerthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against haddock, deer, lamb, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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