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Breakfast for 10 or 12 Persons

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 19 ingredients
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Why it works: Lamb and rabbit share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 51 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Breakfast for 10 or 12 Persons

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare crayfish and serve cold.

  2. Slice cucumbers and arrange on a platter.

  3. Serve oysters raw on ice.

  4. Prepare pickled partridges and serve cold.

  5. Arrange cold meats on a serving dish.

  6. Bake veal cake and serve warm.

  7. Bake lamb pie and serve warm.

  8. Prepare meat rolls and serve hot.

  9. Bake sheep's tongues au gratin and serve hot.

  10. Prepare rabbit puddings a la Richelieu and serve hot.

  11. Devil the duck and serve hot.

  12. Make mayonnaise of soles and serve cold.

  13. Prepare capilotade of chicken and serve hot.

  14. Cook leveret and serve hot.

  15. Prepare civet of venison and serve hot.

  16. Serve preserves, jellies, and bonbons as desired.

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.

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.

  1. Lamb + rabbittop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together51 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Lamb + chickentop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together626 recipes

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

  3. Rabbit + chickentop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together339 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Cucumber + oystertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together192 recipes

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

  5. Crayfish + meattop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

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

Swap the cucumber

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (crayfish, oyster, meat, veal, lamb, rabbit, chicken):

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Cucumberthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against crayfish, oyster, meat, veal, lamb, rabbit, chicken. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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