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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Sweet potato and carrot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 302 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare veal cutlets and pork chops by seasoning and cooking them to your preference.

  2. Fry potatoes until golden brown.

  3. Boil sweet potatoes until tender, then mash or serve whole.

  4. Steam or sauté carrots until tender and creamy.

  5. Sauté onions until translucent.

  6. Prepare chocolate eclairs according to your favorite recipe.

  7. Serve apple sauce as a side dish.

  8. Bake a cake of your choice.

  9. Arrange olives on a serving platter.

  10. Serve milk and coffee as beverages.

  11. Slice bread and spread with butter.

  12. Prepare cereal according to package instructions.

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.

  1. Sweet potato + carrottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together302 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  2. Carrot + oniontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together21,601 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Pork + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,214 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Sweet potato + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together960 recipes

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

  5. Veal + porktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,930 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

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

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, pork, fried potato, sweet potato, carrot, onion, chocolate):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, pork, fried potato, sweet potato, carrot, onion, chocolate. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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