Name: Prince George Sandwiches
Ingredients: cold game, minced finely; stiff salmi sauce; 1 chopped truffle; 4 chopped mushrooms; dissolved meat glaze; large milk rolls; butter; watercress for garnish

Why it works: Truffle and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,900 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Prince George Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Mix the minced cold game with a little stiff salmi sauce, chopped truffle, and chopped mushrooms.
Incorporate enough dissolved meat glaze to form a smooth paste.
Cut the large milk rolls into slices ⅛ inch thick and lightly butter them.
Spread half the slices with the minced game mixture and cover with the remaining slices.
Press the sandwiches, trim the edges, and place them on a folded napkin.
Garnish with sprigs of watercress and serve.

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.

Truffle + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,900 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together81,283 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together12,525 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).
Truffle + buttertop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,209 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Mushroom + milktop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,231 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).