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Dinner for 12 Persons

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Smelt and sauce 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 12 Persons

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the puree of fowl as a base.

  2. Fry the smelts and serve with Dutch sauce.

  3. Cook the crimped cod and top with cream sauce.

  4. Braised the ham and garnish with Brussels sprouts.

  5. Roast the loin of veal until cooked through.

  6. Prepare fillets of partridges and serve.

  7. Make kromeskys of lobsters and fry until golden.

  8. Cook mutton cutlets and serve with sauce.

  9. Prepare scallops of fowl with truffles.

  10. Cook widgeon and serve with sides.

  11. Make a fondue with Parmesan cheese.

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. Smelt + saucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together103 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Sauce + lobstertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,095 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Cream + lobstertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,050 recipes

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

  4. Sauce + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Smelt + lobstertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together35 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the brussels sprouts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (smelt, sauce, cream, ham, veal, lobster, mutton):

  1. Onionfits better
  2. Horseradishfits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Brussels sproutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against smelt, sauce, cream, ham, veal, lobster, mutton. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.