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Winter Lunch.— No. 2. Clear Soup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and orange work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 537 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Winter Lunch.— No. 2. Clear Soup.

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the clear soup using fish.

  2. Serve with tartare sauce and potatoes.

  3. Broil the venison steaks and serve with jelly.

  4. Bake the salsify and serve alongside.

  5. Make a frozen punch for dessert.

  6. Bake the grouse and serve with brown sauce.

  7. Prepare a salad and serve with orange ice.

  8. Finish with cakes and candied fruits, and serve coffee.

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. Potato + orangetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together537 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Potato + coffeetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together167 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  3. Orange + coffeetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together326 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (buttery, creamy).

  4. Fish + potatotop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together134 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  5. Fish + saucetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,487 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (fish, sauce, potato, venison, coffee):

  1. Lemonfits about as well
  2. Grapefits about as well
  3. Pumpkinfits about as well
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against fish, sauce, potato, venison, coffee. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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