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Dinner for 12 Persons

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 31 ingredients
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Why it works: Spinach and mushroom work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 778 recipes. Both carry trans-2-decenal, which smells waxy, orange. The science ↓

Dinner for 12 Persons

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the cod's head by baking it.

  2. Cook the ham and serve with spinach.

  3. Make mock turtle soup.

  4. Prepare fillets of soles and serve.

  5. Roast the veal fillet.

  6. Prepare supreme of fowls and serve.

  7. Cook mutton cutlets.

  8. Make oyster patties.

  9. Prepare fillets of woodcocks.

  10. Cook hare and serve with brioche and cheese.

  11. Prepare mushrooms a la Provengale.

  12. Make German apple tourte.

  13. Prepare scalloped crayfish.

  14. Make pineapple jelly.

  15. Prepare soup a la Paysanne.

  16. Cook crimped cod with Seville sauce.

  17. Make partridge pie a l'Anglaise.

  18. Fry soles and serve with shrimp sauce.

  19. Roast saddle of mutton.

  20. Prepare ballotines of chicken legs.

  21. Make croquettes of sweetbreads.

  22. Cook fillets of teal a la Provengale.

  23. Prepare larks.

  24. Make an omelet with Parmesan.

  25. Prepare croutes with mushrooms.

  26. Make macaroni au gratin.

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. Spinach + mushroomtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together778 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  2. Cheese + mushroomtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,015 recipes

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

  3. Mutton + mushroomtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together685 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Ham + oystertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together360 recipes

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

  5. Veal + mushroomtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,446 recipes

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

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

Swap the spinach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (ham, veal, mutton, oyster, brioche, cheese, mushroom):

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Onionfits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Spinachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against ham, veal, mutton, oyster, brioche, cheese, mushroom. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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