Why it works: Sauce and corn are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 26% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,019 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓
Curry Sauce
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare white sauce.
Stir in the popped corn.
Serve with boiled fowl, garnishing around the bird with dry popped corn.
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 pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.
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Sauce + corntop 26% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together1,019 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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