Name: Thanksgiving Menus
Ingredients: 1 tomato soap; 2 vegetable oyster soup potato puff roasted sweet potatoes parsnip stewed

Why it works: Sweet potato and parsnip share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 95 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Thanksgiving Menus

Ingredients

1 tomato soap
2 vegetable oyster soup potato puff roasted sweet potatoes parsnip stewed

Directions

Tomato Soap with Pasta d'Italia Stuffed Potatoes Canned Asparagus Pulp Succotash Celery Graham Grits Fruit Rolls Graham Puffs Buns Canned Peaches Pumpkin Pie Baked Chestnuts Grape Apples Fresh Fruits
Vegetable Oyster Soup Potato Puff Roasted Sweet Potatoes Parsnip Stewed with Celery Beet Salad Boiled Wheat with Raisins Cream Crisps Whole-Wheat Bread Crescents with Peach Jelly Canned Fruit Cranberry Tarts Almonds and Pecans

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

439Calories

16 gProtein

17 gFat

60 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 6 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Potato	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Vegetable	1 tbsp (14g)	120
Oyster	6 medium (84g)	81
Parsnip	1/2 cup (78g)	55
Tomato	1 medium (123g)	22
Soup	not in our table	0

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

By E. E. Kellogg. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

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.

Explore the science

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.

Sweet potato + parsniptop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together95 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Tomato + potatotop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,798 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Potato + parsniptop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together353 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).
Tomato + sweet potatotop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together359 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Tomato + parsniptop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together134 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tomato, oyster, sweet potato, parsnip):

Okrafits better
Cucumberfits better
Capsicumfits better
Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, oyster, sweet potato, parsnip. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.