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Dinner for Eighteen or Twenty Persons

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 19 ingredients
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Why it works: Turbot and sauce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 248 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Dinner for Eighteen or Twenty Persons

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the turbot and serve it as the first course.

  2. Stuff the boned turkey with tongue and roast it.

  3. Fry the oysters until golden brown.

  4. Cook the smelts and serve them hot.

  5. Prepare stewed eels and serve alongside the lamb.

  6. Roast the fore-quarter of lamb and serve with vegetables and sauces on the side.

  7. For the second course, roast the plovers.

  8. Serve the apple charlotte as a dessert.

  9. Prepare and serve wild fowl.

  10. Make ramakins and serve them warm.

  11. Cook rabbit cutlets and serve them with fricandeau of collared cherry jelly.

  12. Prepare and serve tourte yanille brown.

  13. Serve veal and palates in a glass dish with cream.

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. Turbot + saucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together248 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Smelt + saucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together103 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Turbot + smelttop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together26 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Turkey + rabbittop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together57 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 apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turbot, turkey, oyster, smelt, lamb, sauce, rabbit):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against turbot, turkey, oyster, smelt, lamb, sauce, rabbit. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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