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Dinner for 24 Persons, Russian Style

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 24 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 24 Persons, Russian Style

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare macaroni according to package instructions.

  2. Make a clear soup and serve it hot.

  3. Cook fillets of salmon and serve with sauce.

  4. Prepare pike and serve with sauce.

  5. Cook turbot and serve with lobster sauce.

  6. Prepare oysters and serve them.

  7. Cook ham and serve with French beans.

  8. Roast chickens and serve.

  9. Roast haunch of venison and serve.

  10. Prepare mutton cutlets and serve with Soubise sauce.

  11. Cook partridges with fine herbs and serve.

  12. Make quenelles of fowl and serve with essence.

  13. Prepare quails and serve.

  14. Roast capon and serve.

  15. Roast grouse and serve.

  16. Make a fondu of Parmesan and serve.

  17. Prepare brown-bread pudding and serve.

  18. Make iced cake and serve.

  19. Prepare artichokes and serve with Proveycale sauce.

  20. Make peach jellies and serve.

  21. Prepare apricot tartlets and serve.

  22. Make Russian salads and serve.

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

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

  3. Lobster + saucetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,095 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Salmon + oystertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together672 recipes

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

  5. Turbot + oystertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, turbot, lobster, sauce, oyster, ham, chicken):

  1. Peasfits about as well
  2. Beansthe original
  3. Sesamefits about as well
  4. Peanutfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, turbot, lobster, sauce, oyster, ham, chicken. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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