Name: Olives Farcies Pour Garnitures
Ingredients: 500 grams large round olives; chicken stuffing; water; coarse sea salt; butter; lemon juice

Why it works: Olive and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,922 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Olives Farcies Pour Garnitures

Ingredients

Directions

Remove the pits from the olives and blanch them in boiling water for 3 minutes.
Stuff the olives with chicken stuffing.
Prepare 900 grams of chicken combs by placing them in a pot with enough water to cover them completely.
Bring to a boil and stir gently with a large spoon.
Watch closely; as soon as the skin starts to lift, remove from heat and add fresh water.
If you cook too long after the skin lifts, the blood will coagulate, making it impossible to clean them.
Remove the skin and trim the combs to remove all feathers, ensuring a clean cut.
Soak the combs in salted water for 6 hours, then wash them thoroughly and place them in cold water, changing it several times until they are porcelain white.
Cook the cleaned combs in plenty of water with butter, salt, and lemon juice, being careful not to overcook them as they are meant to garnish dishes.

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.

Olive + lemontop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,922 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Olive + chickentop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,888 recipes

Shared aroma: acetic acid hexyl ester (sweet, green).
Olive + buttertop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,887 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Chicken + buttertop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together13,902 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).
Chicken + lemontop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together5,092 recipes

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