Name: Chile Con Carne
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons mixed spices 6 onions; 1 cup brown flour; 6 onions; 1 small can kidney beans; 1 bottle catsup; 1 large can tomatoes

Why it works: Onion and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 20,633 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Chile Con Carne

Ingredients

Directions

Mrs. Wilmer Brown.
1 lb. Hamburger steak. 2 tablespoons mixed spices
6 onions. tied in bag.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

633Calories

23 gProtein

2 gFat

130 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 4 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Kidney Bean	1/2 cup canned (128g) drained	112
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Tomato	1 medium (123g)	22

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

By Hamilton, Ohio. First Methodist Episcopal church. [from old catalog]. 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.

Onion + tomatotop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together20,633 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Kidney beans + tomatotop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together821 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Onion + kidney beanstop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,050 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Onion + flourtop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together32,460 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Flour + tomatotop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together7,065 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).