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Dinner for 6 Persons

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Why it works: Potato and orange work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 537 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Dinner for 6 Persons

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the consomme and add nouilles.

  2. Bake the smelts au gratin.

  3. Roast the saddle of mutton until cooked through.

  4. Cook the partridges and serve with a Soubise sauce.

  5. Make the curry of rabbits and serve hot.

  6. Prepare the ox-tail with Jardiniere vegetables.

  7. Roast the larks until golden.

  8. Make the potatoes souffles and serve immediately.

  9. Bake the mince pies until golden brown.

  10. Prepare the orange jelly according to package instructions.

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. Potato + orangetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together537 recipes

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

  2. Rabbit + potatotop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together58 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Mutton + rabbittop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together151 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-pentylpyridine (fat).

  4. Mutton + potatotop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together293 recipes

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

  5. Smelt + rabbittop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (smelt, mutton, rabbit, potato):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Applefits about as well
  3. Grapefits about as well
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against smelt, mutton, rabbit, potato. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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