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Dinner for Twelve or Fourteen Persons

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 19 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and pineapple match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 530 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Dinner for Twelve or Fourteen Persons

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the turbot as the first course.

  2. Boil the fowls and serve them.

  3. Fry the soles until golden brown.

  4. Roast the quarter of lamb until cooked through.

  5. Prepare the larded guinea fowl for the second course.

  6. Make the Nesselrode pudding ahead of time.

  7. Prepare the wild-fowl and serve.

  8. Make cheese balls and serve them.

  9. Prepare clear jelly and chill.

  10. Make an apple trifle and layer it.

  11. Prepare raspberries for serving.

  12. Make lobster cutlets and fry them.

  13. Prepare tongue and slice for serving.

  14. Roast larks and serve in a glass dish.

  15. Whip cream for serving.

  16. Make lark pudding and serve it.

  17. Boned pigeons should be prepared and served.

  18. Make pineapple cream and chill.

  19. Prepare small pastry for serving.

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. Apple + pineappletop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together530 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Turbot + lobstertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together163 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

  3. Raspberry + pineappletop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together195 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, sweet).

  4. Lobster + creamtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,050 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Apple + raspberrytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together282 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

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

Swap the raspberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turbot, lamb, cheese, apple, lobster, cream, pineapple):

  1. Pearfits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Apricotfits better
  4. Raspberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against turbot, lamb, cheese, apple, lobster, cream, pineapple. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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