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Dinner for 6 Persons. March.

Menu for dinner for six, including cream of rice soup, eels, lamb's head, fowl, beefsteaks, duck, pigeons, Jerusalem artichokes, cherry bread, and raspberry jam.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Cherry and raspberry work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 192 recipes. Both carry damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Dinner for 6 Persons. March.

serves 6

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the soup

  1. Prepare the cream of rice soup according to package instructions.

Cook the meats and fish

  1. Fry the eels until golden brown.

  2. Cook the lamb's head until tender.

  3. Roast the fowl until fully cooked.

  4. Sear the beefsteaks to your desired doneness.

  5. Roast the pigeons until the skin is crispy.

Finish and serve

  1. Prepare the Jerusalem artichokes by boiling and seasoning.

  2. Bake the cherry bread and serve with raspberry jam.

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. Cherry + raspberrytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together192 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Rice + cherrytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together263 recipes

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

  3. Rice + lambtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together439 recipes

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

  4. Rice + jerusalem artichoketop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Cream + jerusalem artichoketop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together182 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

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

What each ingredient does

Eels
Frying until golden brown gives the fish a browned, crisp surface and savory flavor.
Lamb's head
Long cooking until tender breaks down connective tissue, making the meat soft.
Beefsteaks
Searing browns the surface through the Maillard reaction, adding savory flavor.
Pigeons
Roasting renders fat under the skin, leaving it crisp and browned.
Cherry bread
Baking sets the crumb structure and browns the crust.

The step that matters

Sear the beefsteaks to your desired doneness. Searing at high heat browns the surface through the Maillard reaction, while the interior cooks more slowly. Removing the steaks at the right point keeps them juicy and avoids overcooking the centre.

Swap the raspberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, rice, lamb, jerusalem artichoke, cherry, bread):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Raspberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, rice, lamb, jerusalem artichoke, cherry, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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