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Dinner for 12 Persons

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 19 ingredients
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Why it works: Lamb and quail share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 28 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Dinner for 12 Persons

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare consomme soup and green-peas soup.

  2. Cook white bait and salmon.

  3. Make shrimp patties and roast poulard.

  4. Lard the necks of lamb and prepare mutton cutlets.

  5. Cook tendons of veal with vegetables and garnish with peas.

  6. Prepare vol’au’vent and blanquette of fowls.

  7. Roast guinea-fowls and quails.

  8. Make an omelette soufflee and serve with Coburg cake.

  9. Prepare cucumbers and tourte of currants and raspberries.

  10. Stew peas and make blanc-manger.

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. Lamb + quailtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together28 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Peas + cucumbertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together629 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

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

  4. Peas + salmontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together375 recipes

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

  5. Salmon + cucumbertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together513 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

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

Swap the cucumber

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peas, salmon, shrimp, lamb, mutton, veal, quail):

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Chivefits about as well
  4. Cucumberthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peas, salmon, shrimp, lamb, mutton, veal, quail. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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