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Dinner for 6 Persons

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and rhubarb work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 299 recipes. Both carry 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol, which smells clove, smoky. The science ↓

Dinner for 6 Persons

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare vermicelli soup.

  2. Cook soles and serve with cream sauce.

  3. Prepare veal cutlets.

  4. Make small pastry shells (vols-au-vent).

  5. Roast small saddle of mutton.

  6. Boil half calf's head.

  7. Boil bacon-cheek and garnish with Brussels sprouts.

  8. Make Cabinet pudding.

  9. Prepare orange jelly.

  10. Make custards in glasses.

  11. Bake rhubarb tart.

  12. Prepare lobster salad.

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. Orange + rhubarbtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together299 recipes

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

  2. Fish + muttontop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together121 recipes

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

  3. Veal + muttontop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,394 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-nonanal (fatty, waxy).

  4. Fish + lobstertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together326 recipes

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

  5. Fish + vealtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together230 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

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 (fish, veal, mutton, orange, rhubarb, lobster):

  1. Carrotfits better
  2. Beetrootfits better
  3. Lettucefits better
  4. Brussels sproutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against fish, veal, mutton, orange, rhubarb, lobster. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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