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Breakfast for 10 or 12 Persons

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Oyster and salmon work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 672 recipes. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓

Breakfast for 10 or 12 Persons

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the ribs of beef by rolling them.

  2. Arrange pickled oysters, shrimps, and radishes on the table.

  3. Serve plovers' eggs a la cogue.

  4. Include two dishes of cold meat.

  5. Prepare salmon au bleu and glazed Bayonne ham.

  6. Serve hot Russian caviar and croquettes of fish.

  7. Grill sheep's kidneys and small patties of chicken.

  8. Prepare mayonnaise of turbot and blanquette of lamb.

  9. Serve raised pie of pigeons and broiled fillets of mackerel.

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. Oyster + salmontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together672 recipes

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

  2. Shrimp + meattop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together584 recipes

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

  3. Oyster + shrimptop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together531 recipes

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

  4. Beef + meattop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,533 recipes

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

  5. Meat + hamtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,095 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 radish

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, oyster, shrimp, egg, meat, salmon, ham):

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Chivefits better
  4. Radishthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, oyster, shrimp, egg, meat, salmon, ham. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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