Name: Aspic a LA Czarina
Ingredients: 3 grouse; 1 pint whipped cream; aspic; chaudfroid sauce; truffles; brown chaudfroid sauce; rice; green salad

Why it works: Cream and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,787 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Aspic a LA Czarina

Ingredients

Directions

Pound the meat of the grouse in a mortar and season it.
Pass the mixture through a sieve.
Mix with whipped cream, a little aspic, and chaudfroid sauce.
Set the mixture in a square shallow mold on ice.
Turn out the aspic and dress it with brown chaudfroid sauce.
Decorate with truffles and aspic on a stand of rice, and surround with green salad.

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.

Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,787 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Sauce + ricetop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,396 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Truffle + ricetop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together165 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Sauce + truffletop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,490 recipes
Cream + truffletop 23% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together629 recipes

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