Name: Curry of Cold Roast Beef
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons butter; ½ cup gravy from the meat or made from bones/trimmings; 1 tablespoon curry powder; Cooked rice for serving

Why it works: Meat and rice are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,481 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Curry of Cold Roast Beef

Ingredients

2 tablespoons butter
½ cup gravy from the meat or made from bones/trimmings
1 tablespoon curry powder
Cooked rice for serving

Directions

Melt the butter in a stewpan over medium heat.
Pour in the gravy and add the curry powder.
Let the mixture simmer for 10 to 12 minutes.
Serve the curry with a border of cooked rice.

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.

Meat + ricetop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,481 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Butter + ricetop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together9,645 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Butter + meattop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together7,594 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).