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Dinner of 10 to 12 Covers

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 33 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and horseradish work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 171 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Dinner of 10 to 12 Covers

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare 4 cold hors d’oeuvre.

  2. Serve Amontillado wine.

  3. Make poultry puree soup.

  4. Prepare rissoles.

  5. Cook a middle-piece of salmon and serve with Bordelaise sauce.

  6. Boil potatoes.

  7. Serve Kirvan-Cantenac wine.

  8. Roast a sirloin of beef and serve with horseradish sauce.

  9. Serve Chambertin wine.

  10. Make Yorkshire pudding.

  11. Serve with Chateau-d’Yquem wine.

  12. Prepare a hot pie of larks.

  13. Serve Roederer wine.

  14. Lard and roast a young turkey.

  15. Serve Irroy Imperial wine.

  16. Prepare a salad and bread sauce.

  17. Serve Chateau Margaux wine.

  18. Cook cardoons with marrow.

  19. Serve Russ-chariot wine.

  20. Serve Malaga wine.

  21. Prepare 2 compotes and 2 petits-fours.

  22. Serve 2 dried fruits and 2 cheeses.

  23. Present a basket of fresh fruits.

  24. Offer assorted liqueurs.

  25. Serve ices and coffee.

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. Potato + horseradishtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together171 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Potato + beeftop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,052 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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

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

  4. Horseradish + cardoontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1 recipe

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Turkey + breadtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together822 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, sauce, beef, horseradish, turkey, bread, cardoon):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Mustardfits better
  3. Chivefits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, sauce, beef, horseradish, turkey, bread, cardoon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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