Name: Sauce Tartare
Ingredients: 1 cup mayonnaise dressing; 1 teaspoon chopped olive; 1 teaspoon chopped pickle; 1 teaspoon chopped parsley

Why it works: Olive and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,649 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Sauce Tartare

Ingredients

1 cup mayonnaise dressing
1 teaspoon chopped olive
1 teaspoon chopped pickle
1 teaspoon chopped parsley

Directions

Combine mayonnaise dressing, chopped olive, chopped pickle, and chopped parsley in a bowl.
Mix well until all ingredients are evenly incorporated.

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.

Olive + parsleytop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together9,649 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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What each ingredient does

Mayonnaise dressing: Provides the creamy base and moisture that binds the sauce together.
Chopped olive: Adds salty, briny flavor that cuts through the richness of the base.
Chopped pickle: Contributes acidity and tang that brightens the sauce.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.