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Beef Cobbler with Cheddar and Rosemary Scones

Enjoy the rich taste of tender beef stewed in red wine with a cheese scone topping.

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Why it works: Rosemary and beef work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 424 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6
Prep30 min
Cook2 hr

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By bbcfood. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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. Rosemary + beeftop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together424 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Celery + tomatotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,375 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Pepper + rosemarytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,324 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  5. Pepper + celerytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together16,001 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the leek

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, pepper, onion, carrot, celery, tomato, red wine):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Potatobetter flavor fit
  3. Parsnipbetter flavor fit
  4. Leekthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, pepper, onion, carrot, celery, tomato, red wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).