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Breakfast for 12 or More Persons

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 22 ingredients
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Why it works: Pheasant and turkey share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 33 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Breakfast for 12 or More Persons

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Roast and glaze the partridges.

  2. Prepare the Lyons sausage and pickled cockles.

  3. Make potted cold boiled beef and pheasant patties.

  4. Prepare marbled veal and canapes of sardines.

  5. Cook oyster sausages and devilled turkey.

  6. Toast the ham.

  7. Prepare game puddings and dolpettes of cold meat.

  8. Toss the bloaters.

  9. Make tench pie and rolled goose.

  10. Cook grouse a la minute and terrine of hare.

  11. Prepare truffles a la serviette.

  12. Make an omelette of mushrooms.

  13. Serve biscuits, marmalades, and bonbons as accessories.

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. Pheasant + turkeytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together33 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Beef + turkeytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together248 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  3. Beef + pheasanttop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together131 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Veal + truffletop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together815 recipes

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

  5. Beef + vealtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,784 recipes

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

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