Name: Egg Salad
Ingredients: eggs; chopped cooked chicken or veal

Why it works: Egg and chicken are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 30% of all ingredient pairs, and 8,991 recipes mention both. Both carry (e,e)-2,4-decadienal, which smells fatty, deep fried. The science ↓

Egg Salad

Ingredients

eggs
chopped cooked chicken or veal

Directions

Prepare the eggs as you would for Egg Salad I.
Add an equal amount of chopped cooked chicken or veal to the egg yolk.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

Egg + chickentop 30% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together8,991 recipes

Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

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