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Valentine Warner's Duck a L’orange with Watercress Recipe

An absolute classic from Valentine Warner, flavoured with orange, honey, red wine, ginger and rosemary.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Rosemary and orange match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 261 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

The recipe

4 people
Prep20 min
Cook1 hr 30 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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 + orangetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together261 recipes

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

  2. Orange + gingertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,833 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  3. Rosemary + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,324 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Rosemary + red winetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together320 recipes

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

  5. Rosemary + gingertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together113 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the ginger

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sunflower, rosemary, orange, pepper, red wine, honey, butter):

  1. Thymebetter flavor fit
  2. Sageabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Cinnamonabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Gingerthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sunflower, rosemary, orange, pepper, red wine, honey, butter. 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).