Name: Bolivia Salad
Ingredients: 1½ cups hard boiled potatoes, cubed; ½ tablespoon chopped chives; 1½ tablespoons finely chopped red peppers; 3 hard boiled eggs

Why it works: Potato and chive work together. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 611 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Bolivia Salad

Ingredients

1½ cups hard boiled potatoes, cubed
½ tablespoon chopped chives
1½ tablespoons finely chopped red peppers
3 hard boiled eggs

Directions

Combine the cubed potatoes, chopped chives, chopped red peppers, and chopped hard boiled eggs in a bowl.
Mix thoroughly.
Pour over the cream dressing.

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.

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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.

Potato + chivetop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together611 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together8,305 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Chive + peppertop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,885 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
Chive + eggtop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,624 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Potato + eggtop 29% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,978 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).