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Dinner for 16 Persons. April.

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 29 ingredients
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Dinner for 16 Persons. April.

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare clear turtle soup.

  2. Cook haddocks and serve with egg sauce.

  3. Bake turbot au gratin.

  4. Make lobster patties to serve as appetizers.

  5. Sear the fillet of beef.

  6. Roast the capon.

  7. Braised carbonnades of mutton until tender.

  8. Breadcrumb and fry lamb cutlets, serve with cucumber sauce.

  9. Cook fillets of pigeons.

  10. Prepare fricandeau with puree of spinach.

  11. Make a casserole of rice with plover's eggs.

  12. Prepare pate-chaud of quails.

  13. Roast spring chickens.

  14. Prepare leverets.

  15. Make small fondus in cases.

  16. Fry pineapple fritters.

  17. Prepare crotes with mushrooms.

  18. Make Bavarian strawberry cream.

  19. Cook asparagus-peas.

  20. Prepare cheese cakes.

  21. Make vol-au-vent of rhubarb.

  22. Prepare calf's-feet wine jelly.

  23. Bake savarin cake.

  24. Make salade de volaille.

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. Haddock + saucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together200 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Sauce + turbottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together248 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Haddock + turbottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together12 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Beef + lambtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together896 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

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

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