Name: Ham Croquettes
Ingredients: chopped ham; chopped parsley; champagne sauce

Why it works: Parsley and champagne work together. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 156 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Ham Croquettes

Ingredients

chopped ham
chopped parsley
champagne sauce

Directions

Prepare the ham as you would for croquettes.
Add a little chopped parsley to the mixture.
Shape into croquettes and fry until golden brown.
Serve with champagne sauce.

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.

Parsley + champagnetop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together156 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).
Ham + saucetop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,314 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Parsley + saucetop 23% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together6,693 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Ham + parsleytop 24% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together3,249 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Ham + champagnetop 24% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together45 recipes

Shared aroma: 4-ethyl-2-methoxyphenol (smoky, clove).