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Dinner for 6 Persons

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and mutton are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,373 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Dinner for 6 Persons

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare game soup as a starter.

  2. Cook crimped skate and serve with crab sauce.

  3. Serve slices of salmon with fricasseed sweetbreads and savory rissoles.

  4. For the main course, roast sirloin of beef and serve with horseradish sauce.

  5. Boil leg of mutton and serve with caper sauce and vegetables.

  6. For dessert, serve roast partridges, Charlotte Russe, apricot pudding, fruit jelly, and cabinet pudding.

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. Beef + muttontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,373 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Horseradish + saucetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together775 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Beef + horseradishtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together491 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

  4. Salmon + horseradishtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together250 recipes

    Shared aroma: eugenol (clove, spicy).

  5. Salmon + saucetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,765 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the apricot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, beef, horseradish, sauce, mutton):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Apricotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, beef, horseradish, sauce, mutton. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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