Name: Especially for Turkeys
Ingredients: ½ loaf baker's bread, dried; cold water; 1 small onion; 2 tablespoons butter; 1 pound chopped veal; ½ pound tender pork; ½ nutmeg, grated; pepper, to taste; ¼ teaspoon salt; chopped parsley, to taste; 3 eggs

Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

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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.

Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together34,122 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Nutmeg + parsleytop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together5,062 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together27,232 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Nutmeg + peppertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together13,015 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Onion + parsleytop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together25,843 recipes

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

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, butter, veal, pork, nutmeg, pepper, parsley):

Carrotfits better
Potatofits better
Capsicumfits better
Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, butter, veal, pork, nutmeg, pepper, parsley. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Especially for Turkeys