Name: Coquilles, or Scalloped Meat, Etc
Ingredients: cold roast meat; seasoning; bread crumbs; wine; gravy

Why it works: Meat and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,924 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Coquilles, or Scalloped Meat, Etc

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Chop the cold roast meat into thin slices, about 1 inch across.
Season the meat well.
Pour enough wine and gravy over the meat to moisten it.
Place the seasoned meat in a baking dish and top with bread crumbs.
Bake in a moderate oven at 350°F (175°C) until heated through and the top is golden brown.

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.

Meat + breadtop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,924 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Bread + winetop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together956 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).
Meat + winetop 30% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together754 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).