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Dinner for Eighteen or Twenty Persons

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 23 ingredients
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Why it works: Smelt and turbot share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 26 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Dinner for Eighteen or Twenty Persons

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare a piece of split salmon as the first course.

  2. Boil three chickens for the second course.

  3. Stew dory and fry smelts.

  4. Serve turbot and haunch of venison with vegetables and sauces on the side.

  5. For the second course, serve pea-fowl and nesselrode pudding.

  6. Roast pigeons and prepare ramakins.

  7. Make clear plovers' maringues and charlotte prichandean of beef tongue.

  8. Prepare sweetbreads and jelly, and serve eggs with russc and tomato sauce.

  9. Prepare brown lobster collared sweetbreads and lemon dressed crab.

  10. Serve clear cutlets and breast of veal, along with sponge and jelly.

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. Smelt + turbottop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together26 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Chicken + beeftop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,148 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  3. Beef + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,448 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Chicken + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,031 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Salmon + venisontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together33 recipes

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

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

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, chicken, smelt, turbot, venison, beef, egg):

  1. Onionfits better
  2. Asparagusfits about as well
  3. Potatofits about as well
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, chicken, smelt, turbot, venison, beef, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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