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Dinner for 16 Persons

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 26 ingredients
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Why it works: Spinach and beans match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 365 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Dinner for 16 Persons

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare macaroni clear soup.

  2. Make puree of spinach, a la Conde.

  3. Cook crimped turbot with lobster sauce.

  4. Prepare matelotte of eels, a la Bordelaise.

  5. Braised saddle of lamb, a la Jardiniere.

  6. Cook poulards, a l'Estragon.

  7. Prepare shrimp patties to serve.

  8. Cook mutton cutlets with new potatoes.

  9. Lard sweetbreads, a la Parisienne.

  10. Prepare fillets of pigeons, a la Dauphine.

  11. Cook fillets of ducklings, a la Bigarade.

  12. Serve French beans.

  13. Make quenelles of fowl, a la Perigueux.

  14. Prepare quails, au gratin, with Financiere sauce.

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. Spinach + beanstop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together365 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  2. Turbot + lobstertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together163 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

  3. Spinach + potatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together646 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  4. Potato + beanstop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together655 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  5. Lamb + muttontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together598 recipes

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

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

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