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A Full Course Dinner

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 22 ingredients
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Why it works: Radish and celery work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 101 recipes. Both carry 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol, which smells clove, smoky. The science ↓

A Full Course Dinner

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Serve Little Neck Clams or Bluepoints with brown bread sandwiches.

  2. For a gentlemen's dinner, serve canapés with sherry wine before guests enter.

  3. Offer clear soup with bread sticks, small rolls, or crisp crackers.

  4. If serving two soups, one can be a cream soup with croutons.

  5. Pass radishes, celery, or olives after the soup.

  6. Serve salted almonds between courses.

  7. Prepare bouchées or rissoles with a filling of light meat.

  8. Serve fish baked, boiled, or fried with potatoes and a vegetable.

  9. Roast saddle of venison or mutton, spring lamb, or fillet of beef with potatoes and another vegetable.

  10. Prepare an entrée made of light meat or fish.

  11. Serve a vegetable like mushrooms, cauliflower, asparagus, or artichokes without white sauce.

  12. Offer punch or cheese course before the game course.

  13. Serve game with a vegetable salad, usually lettuce or celery, or cheese sticks with the salad.

  14. Finish with a cold dessert.

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. Radish + celerytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together101 recipes

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

  2. Bread + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,091 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Celery + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,667 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  4. Radish + olivetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together164 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Wine + olivetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,415 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid hexyl ester (sweet, green).

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

Swap the radish

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (clam, bread, sherry, wine, cream, celery, olive):

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Radishthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against clam, bread, sherry, wine, cream, celery, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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