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
Prepare the consomme and add nouilles.
Bake the smelts au gratin.
Roast the saddle of mutton until cooked through.
Cook the partridges and serve with a Soubise sauce.
Make the curry of rabbits and serve hot.
Prepare the ox-tail with Jardiniere vegetables.
Roast the larks until golden.
Make the potatoes souffles and serve immediately.
Bake the mince pies until golden brown.
Prepare the orange jelly according to package instructions.
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.
Explore the science
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.
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Potato + orangetop 11% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together537 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
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Rabbit + potatotop 14% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together58 recipes
Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
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Mutton + rabbittop 16% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together151 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-pentylpyridine (fat).
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Mutton + potatotop 19% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together293 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
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Smelt + rabbittop 29% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked 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):
- Lemonfits better
- Applefits about as well
- Grapefits about as well
- 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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