Name: Caviabb Pancakes
Ingredients: Pancake batter (prepared using your favorite recipe); Anchovy butter; Caviar; 1 finely chopped shallot; A pinch of cayenne pepper; A few drops of lemon juice; Lemon quarters for garnish; Fresh parsley for garnish

Why it works: Lemon and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Caviabb Pancakes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare a rich pancake batter and let it stand for 30 minutes.
Strain the batter into a jug.
Fry six thin pancakes in a small omelet pan and drain them on a cloth.
Spread a thin layer of anchovy butter on one side of each pancake.
Mix caviar with chopped shallot, cayenne, and lemon juice, then spread on top of the anchovy butter.
Roll or fold the pancakes quickly after cooking, then cut into portions.
Garnish with lemon quarters and parsley, and serve immediately.

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.

Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together14,037 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Shallot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,737 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together27,047 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Shallot + lemontop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,523 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).