Name: Veal Pie
Ingredients: Veal steaks (preferably from the fillet); 1 egg yolk; Bread crumbs; White pepper; Coarse sea salt; Gravy; Optional: egg-balls; Puff pastry

Why it works: Egg and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 22,662 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Veal Pie

Ingredients

Directions

Cut veal steaks from the fillet and flatten them with a rolling pin.
Dip the steaks in the egg yolk and dredge with bread crumbs.
Season with white pepper and coarse sea salt.
Roll up the steaks and fill a pie dish with them.
Pour in a little gravy and add egg-balls if desired.
Cover the pie with puff pastry.

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.

Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together22,662 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
Veal + breadtop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together3,056 recipes

Shared aroma: cis-3-hexenol (green, grassy).
Egg + white peppertop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,312 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).
Veal + white peppertop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,057 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Bread + white peppertop 27% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together925 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).