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Dinner for 10 Persons. January.

A multi-course dinner for ten featuring fish, turkey, ham, partridges, black-cock, teal, and various side dishes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Sauce and smelt match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 103 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Dinner for 10 Persons. January.

10 persons

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fish

  1. Prepare the fish by crimping the cod.

  2. Serve the fish with oyster sauce and garnish with fried smelts.

Roast the meats and game

  1. Roast the turkey.

  2. Serve the turkey with braised ham and spinach.

  3. Cook the fat livers and fillets of partridges as per the recipe for 'à la Lucullus'.

  4. Roast the black-cock.

  5. Roast the teal.

Make the dessert and sides

  1. Make a soufflé of apples.

  2. Serve the soufflé as a dessert.

  3. Prepare mecca loaves with apricot, braised celery, Italian cream, and macaroni au gratin as side dishes.

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. Sauce + smelttop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together103 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Fish + oystertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together496 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Oyster + hamtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together360 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Fish + hamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together125 recipes

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

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

Swap the spinach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (fish, oyster, sauce, smelt, turkey, ham, liver):

  1. Onionfits better
  2. Horseradishfits better
  3. Tomatofits better
  4. Spinachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against fish, oyster, sauce, smelt, turkey, ham, liver. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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