Name: Poached Eggs
Ingredients: eggs; slices of bread; cooked chicken or turkey; chopped truffles

Why it works: Chicken and truffle work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 756 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Poached Eggs

Ingredients

eggs
slices of bread
cooked chicken or turkey
chopped truffles

Directions

Fry slices of bread until golden brown.
Poach the eggs until the whites are set.
Place the fried bread on a plate.
Top each slice of bread with a poached egg.
Add a mince of cooked chicken or turkey around the eggs.
Garnish with chopped truffles.

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.

Chicken + truffletop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together756 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together22,662 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
Bread + chickentop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,258 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity).
Bread + truffletop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together531 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Egg + truffletop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,604 recipes

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