Name: Savage Club Canapes
Ingredients: stale bread; butter; olives; anchovies; mayonnaise

Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Savage Club Canapes

Ingredients

Directions

Cut stale bread into circles the size of fifty-cent pieces.
Brown the bread in a little hot butter and lay on paper to absorb excess grease.
Stone the olives and fillet half as many anchovies.
Wash and dry the anchovies, then roll each one up tightly and insert it into an olive in place of the stone.
Trim one end of the olive so it can stand upright.
Place a drop of thick mayonnaise on the center of each cold bread round.
Stand the stuffed olive on the mayonnaise and add another drop of mayonnaise on top to cover the opening.

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.

Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together27,232 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Bread + olivetop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,091 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
Butter + olivetop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,887 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).