Why it works: Currant and carrot work together. They rank in the top 28% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 289 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓
To Roast Wild Duck
Ingredients
Directions
Dress the duck and soak it overnight in a mixture of salt and water to remove the fishy taste.
In the morning, rinse the duck in fresh water, changing the water several times.
Optionally, stuff the duck as desired.
Place a carrot inside the duck and boil for a few minutes before roasting.
Serve the duck with currant jelly.
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.
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Currant + carrottop 28% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together289 recipes
Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
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