Name: Dinner
Ingredients: fish-soup; game or poultry; mashed potatoes; green vegetables; macaroni and cheese

Why it works: Potato and cheese work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 959 recipes. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

Dinner

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare fish-soup according to your preferred recipe.
Cook and season game or poultry until done.
Boil potatoes until tender, then mash with butter and salt.
Steam or boil green vegetables until bright and tender.
Cook macaroni according to package instructions, then mix with cheese until melted.

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 + cheesetop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together959 recipes

Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).
Fish + potatotop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together134 recipes

Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).
Fish + cheesetop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together135 recipes

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