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Dinner for Twelve or Fourteen Persons

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 17 ingredients
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Why it works: Peas and asparagus match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 808 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Dinner for Twelve or Fourteen Persons

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare Soup Julienne as the first course.

  2. Boil the leg of lamb until tender.

  3. Cook the turbot and serve it as the centerpiece.

  4. Roast the fowls and place them on the side table with vegetables and sauces.

  5. Serve green peas as a side dish.

  6. Make Venetian pudding and serve with emit sauce.

  7. Prepare ducklings as the second centerpiece.

  8. Make raspberry scotch punch for a refreshing drink.

  9. Prepare shrimp tongue and boned cream as appetizers.

  10. Cook woodcock and serve with jelly.

  11. Prepare patties and pigeons as additional dishes.

  12. Sauté brown greens and asparagus as sides.

  13. Mash potatoes and serve them hot.

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. Peas + asparagustop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together808 recipes

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

  2. Asparagus + potatotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together217 recipes

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

  3. Lamb + asparagustop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together207 recipes

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

  4. Peas + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,016 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  5. Lamb + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together520 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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 (lamb, turbot, peas, shrimp, cream, asparagus, potato):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Limefits better
  4. Raspberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lamb, turbot, peas, shrimp, cream, asparagus, potato. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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