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Dinner for Sixteen or Eighteen Sons

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 28 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 Sixteen or Eighteen Sons

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the turbot by cleaning and cooking it to your preference.

  2. Stew the rump of beef until tender.

  3. Fry the fillets of soles until golden brown.

  4. Roast the turkey until fully cooked.

  5. Serve assorted vegetables and sauces on the side.

  6. Prepare the brace of woodcocks by roasting them.

  7. Make Eve’s pudding and stick it with almonds.

  8. Bone the hare and prepare it for serving.

  9. Make cheese balls and serve them.

  10. Prepare vanilla and orange seakale as a side dish.

  11. Cook punch sausages and serve with small ham.

  12. Prepare sweetbreads and serve with cream.

  13. Make fritters and serve with jelly.

  14. Mash potatoes and serve them glazed.

  15. Stew celery and serve alongside partridge.

  16. Prepare beef and serve with noyeau.

  17. Make mince pies and serve with clear white pie.

  18. Serve olives as a garnish.

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. Almond + vanillatop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,961 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Almond + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,125 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Vanilla + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,371 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Beef + turkeytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together248 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turbot, beef, turkey, sauce, almond, cheese, orange):

  1. Figfits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Grapefits better
  4. Vanillathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against turbot, beef, turkey, sauce, almond, cheese, orange. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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