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Dinner for 8 Persons. February.

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 19 ingredients
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Why it works: Barley and rice match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 568 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Dinner for 8 Persons. February.

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare cream of barley as a soup base.

  2. Cook eels in a matelotte style.

  3. Broil crimped cod and serve with Dutch sauce.

  4. Prepare pheasants a la Financibre.

  5. Braised roll of beef a la Flamande.

  6. Cook noukles and mix with Parmesan.

  7. Prepare scallops of fowl a la l'ecalarte.

  8. Bread-crumb lamb cutlets and serve with celery purée.

  9. Prepare teal for the second course.

  10. Cook macaroni a l'italienne.

  11. Make rice soufflé.

  12. Prepare canapés of anchovies.

  13. Cook seakale a la Béchamel.

  14. Make a tourte of pears a la Cobourg.

  15. Prepare burnt cream au caramel.

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. Barley + ricetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together568 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  2. Pheasant + lambtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together15 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Beef + lambtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together896 recipes

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

  4. Barley + celerytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together571 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  5. Barley + beeftop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together458 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

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

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, barley, sauce, pheasant, beef, lamb, rice):

  1. Celerythe original
  2. Nutmegfits about as well
  3. Garlicfits about as well
  4. Capersfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, barley, sauce, pheasant, beef, lamb, rice. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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