Name: Stewed Kidneys
Ingredients: half cup beef stock; one-half cupful cream; one table- spoonful each flour

Why it works: Cream and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 30,481 recipes. Both carry acetaldehyde, which smells pungent, ethereal. The science ↓

Stewed Kidneys

Ingredients

half cup beef stock
one-half cupful cream
one table- spoonful each flour

Directions

Soak kidneys in salt water over night, and boil until tender with little onion chopped fine. Place in sauce pan, one table- spoonful each flour and butter, cook to a nice brown, add one- half cup beef stock, one-half cupful cream, season to taste, boil good five minutes then add the cut kidneys. Serve hot with chopped parsley on top. — Miss Charlotte Wickstrom, Hartford, Conn.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

756Calories

39 gProtein

22 gFat

95 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 3 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Beef	100g cooked	250
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.

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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.

Cream + flourtop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together30,481 recipes

Shared aroma: acetaldehyde (pungent, ethereal).
Beef + flourtop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together10,677 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Beef + creamtop 26% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,128 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).