Name: Consomme Desclignac
Ingredients: 1 clear soup; ⅓ cup sherry; royale custards; carrot; turnip

Why it works: Carrot and turnip match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,002 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Consomme Desclignac

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare a clear soup and add sherry.
Stamp royale custards into round lozenge shapes.
Cut carrot and turnip into matching shapes.
Serve the soup with the custards and vegetable shapes.

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.

Carrot + turniptop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together8,002 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Sherry + carrottop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together971 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).
Sherry + turniptop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together358 recipes

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