Name: To Prepare Bread Stuffing, American and English Style
Ingredients: meat; salt and spices; cold sauces or raw cream; butter or udder; eggs; panada; brown sauce or melted meat glaze

Why it works: Sauce and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,338 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

To Prepare Bread Stuffing, American and English Style

Ingredients

Directions

Pass the meat through a machine to remove the nerves.
Pound the meat to a pulp until it can pass through a metal sieve.
Pound the meat again, then add the panada and butter, continuing to pound.
Add the eggs one at a time while pounding, then season.
Pass the mixture through a strong hair sieve.
Place in a thin tin vessel, set on ice, and stir with a spoon until smooth.
Keep in a cool place until needed.

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.

Sauce + buttertop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together15,338 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Meat + buttertop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together7,594 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together118,967 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Meat + saucetop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,167 recipes
Meat + eggtop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together6,432 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

Sauce and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 15,338 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

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To Prepare Bread Stuffing, American and English Style