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Bills of Fare for Dinners

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 26 ingredients
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Why it works: Oyster and caviar work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 16 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Bills of Fare for Dinners

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Serve oysters, preserved tuna, caviar, and saucisson as cold hors d'oeuvres.

  2. Prepare tapioca jelly broth.

  3. Make small timbales of nouilles.

  4. Cook calf's head and serve with Madeira sauce.

  5. Roast chickens and serve with green peas.

  6. Lard the haunch of roebuck.

  7. Prepare a celery salad with currant jelly.

  8. Cook haricots flageolets with bechamel sauce.

  9. Serve apricots with rice.

  10. Bake small glazed genoises.

  11. Offer two types of fruits, two compotes, two cheeses, and two biscuits.

  12. Serve nougat a la creme.

  13. Provide assorted liqueurs, 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.

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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 + caviartop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together16 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Peas + celerytop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,832 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Chicken + peastop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,528 recipes

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

  4. Peas + apricottop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together32 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  5. Oyster + saucetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (oyster, caviar, sauce, chicken, peas, celery, apricot):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Grapefits better
  3. Plumfits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against oyster, caviar, sauce, chicken, peas, celery, apricot. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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