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Mustard-Cream Pan Sauce

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By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Mustard and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and 2,935 recipes mention both. Both carry acetaldehyde, which smells pungent, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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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.

  1. Mustard + creamtop 17% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together2,935 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetaldehyde (pungent, ethereal).

  2. Chicken + mustardtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,192 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, creamy).

  3. Chicken + creamtop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together6,241 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

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