Name: Clam Chowder
Ingredients: Clams; Potatoes; Turnip; Milk

Why it works: Potato and turnip work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 562 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Clam Chowder

Ingredients

Clams
Potatoes
Turnip
Milk

Directions

Prepare the clams by cleaning and chopping them.
Peel and dice the potatoes and turnip.
In a pot, combine the clams, potatoes, turnip, and milk.
Cook over medium heat until the potatoes are tender.
Season to taste and serve hot.

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.

Potato + turniptop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together562 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Potato + milktop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,611 recipes

Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).
Clam + potatotop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together80 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).
Clam + milktop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together636 recipes

Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).
Turnip + milktop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together865 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).