Why it works: Rosemary and bread work together. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and 33 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl decanoate, which smells grape, waxy. The science ↓
The recipe
Ingredients
Contains: egg, milk, wheat (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.
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Rosemary + breadtop 21% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together33 recipes
Shared aroma: ethyl decanoate (grape, waxy).
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Sage + rosemarytop 1% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together465 recipes
Shared aroma: 1,8-cineol (eucalyptus, camphor).
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Thyme + rosemarytop 1% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together1,340 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
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Thyme + sagetop 1% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together1,485 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
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Pork + chickentop 1% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together5,375 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Flavor stand-ins for the rosemary
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, thyme, pork, sage, egg, bread, pepper):
- Marjorambetter flavor fit
- Parsleybetter flavor fit
- Rosemarythe original
- Winter savoryabout as good a flavor fit
Fit is the average pairing score against butter, thyme, pork, sage, egg, bread, pepper. 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).
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