Why it works: Butter and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and 85,593 recipes mention both. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓
To Dress Ducks with Onions
Ingredients
Directions
_Contributed by Mrs. James T. Halsey, Philadelphia, Pa._
Stuff ducks, with livers, bacon and onions minced. Add one kitchen spoon of butter; salt and pepper and chopped mushrooms. Put into bodies of ducks and roast. Cut off the roots of small onions, blanch them in scalding water, pick, and put into a stewpan with a little gravy. Set over a gentle fire and let simmer. When done thicken with cream and flour. Place ducks on hot dish, pour the ragout of onions over and serve very hot.
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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.
-
Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together85,593 recipes
Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
You might also like
Tomato Soup526 recipes
Brown Bread461 recipes
Mutton Broth292 recipes
Yorkshire Pudding264 recipesThe Sunday pairing: one pairing, the chemistry behind it, and how to cook it. No spam, unsubscribe anytime.
Prefer an account? Create a free account for sign-in; Pro adds the full results and chemistry.