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Dinner for 18 Persons

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Lettuce and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,483 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Dinner for 18 Persons

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the consommé with lettuce and peas.

  2. Cook the macaroni according to package instructions.

  3. Sauté the salmon trout in butter with parsley.

  4. Prepare the sturgeon with a sauce of your choice.

  5. Roast the haunch of venison until cooked through.

  6. Braised the mutton cutlets until tender.

  7. Create a chartreuse of vegetables and garnish with fillets of fowls and veal.

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. Lettuce + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,483 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  2. Lettuce + peastop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,293 recipes

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

  3. Salmon + sturgeontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together35 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  4. Peas + salmontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together375 recipes

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

  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 lettuce

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peas, salmon, parsley, butter, sturgeon, venison, liver):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Cucumberfits better
  3. Carrotfits better
  4. Lettucethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peas, salmon, parsley, butter, sturgeon, venison, liver. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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