Name: How to Utilize Turnip Cups
Ingredients: small turnips; fresh peas or lima beans; salt; cream sauce

Why it works: Turnip and peas are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,350 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

How to Utilize Turnip Cups

Ingredients

small turnips
fresh peas or lima beans
salt
cream sauce

Directions

Peel and scoop out the turnips.
Boil the turnip shells in water until transparent.
Soak the shelled peas in cold water for 30 minutes.
Boil the peas in salted water until tender.
Fill the turnip cups with the cooked peas or beans and serve with cream 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.

Turnip + peastop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,350 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,787 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Turnip + saucetop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together943 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Turnip + creamtop 27% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together797 recipes

Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).
Peas + saucetop 27% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,109 recipes