Calf's Liver and Bacon

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.

1. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
   Smell alikelow
   Cooked together124,287 recipes

   Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

2. Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together41,227 recipes

   Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

3. Flour + lemontop 17% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together30,404 recipes

   Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

4. Liver + buttertop 19% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together2,065 recipes

   Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

5. Liver + lemontop 27% of all pairs
   Smell alikelow
   Cooked together768 recipes

   Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (liver, flour, butter):

1. Raisinfits better
2. Applefits about as well
3. Lemonthe original
4. Coconutfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against liver, flour, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.