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Breakfast for 12 or More Persons

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 24 ingredients
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Why it works: Turkey and rabbit share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 57 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Breakfast for 12 or More Persons

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare a variety of cold dishes including cold meat with vinaigrette, potted venison, pickled turkey, oyster loaves, lobster patties, preserved rabbit, and kippered mackerel.

  2. Serve hot dishes such as broiled pigeons, croquettes of prawns, poached eggs with spinach, tossed perch, and poulet a la chipolata.

  3. Include a raised pie of ham and a salad of pike.

  4. Finish with oysters and macaroni, artichokes with gravy, and a selection of candied and fresh fruits, along with biscuits.

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. Turkey + rabbittop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together57 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Venison + oystertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together47 recipes

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

  3. Meat + rabbittop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together315 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Oyster + lobstertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together255 recipes

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

  5. Meat + turkeytop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together540 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

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