Name: Preserved Game
Ingredients: preserved widgeon; preserved teal; preserved grouse; preserved plovers; preserved wild ducks; plovers' eggs; spring chickens; quails

Why it works: Chicken and quail work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 135 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Preserved Game

Ingredients

Directions

Cut the preserved game into pieces.
For salads, use preserved game, plovers' eggs, or boned and stuffed spring chickens and quails.
Arrange the ingredients in a pleasing manner on a plate.
Serve cold for best flavor.

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.

Chicken + quailtop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together135 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Egg + quailtop 29% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together164 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Egg + chickentop 30% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together8,991 recipes

Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).