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Dinner for Six

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Asparagus and peas match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 808 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Dinner for Six

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the loin of veal with Bechamel sauce.

  2. Cook the fillet of chickens.

  3. Prepare the calves' brains.

  4. Fry the soles.

  5. Roast the partridge and serve with red cabbage.

  6. Roast the guinea fowl and serve with currant tart.

  7. Prepare eggs a la Bourguignonne.

  8. Stew the asparagus in peas.

  9. Make a soufflé with rice.

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. Asparagus + peastop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together808 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Cabbage + asparagustop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together101 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Chicken + asparagustop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together539 recipes

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

  4. Cabbage + peastop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together392 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Veal + chickentop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,243 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-butanedione (buttery, creamy).

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

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, sauce, chicken, cabbage, egg, asparagus, peas):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, sauce, chicken, cabbage, egg, asparagus, peas. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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