Name: Dinner. — Males — Sunday.
Ingredients: 5 oz cooked meat (roast pork, beef, or mutton); 9 oz vegetables; 8 oz bread; ½ pint beer

Why it works: Meat and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,924 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Dinner. — Males — Sunday.

Ingredients

5 oz cooked meat (roast pork, beef, or mutton)
9 oz vegetables
8 oz bread
½ pint beer

Directions

Serve 5 oz of cooked meat free from bone.
Add 9 oz of vegetables.
Include 8 oz of bread.
Pour ½ pint of beer.

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.

Meat + breadtop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,924 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Bread + beertop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together146 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity).
Meat + beertop 26% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together93 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).