Why it works: Liver and olive work together. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 186 recipes. Both carry hexanol, which smells green, fruity. The science ↓
Bacon and Calf's Liver Olives
Ingredients
Directions
Cook the bacon until crispy.
Remove the gills from the calf's liver and slice it.
Stuff the liver slices with olives.
Wrap the stuffed liver with bacon and secure with toothpicks.
Cook in a skillet over medium heat until the liver is cooked through and the bacon is crispy.
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.
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Liver + olivetop 21% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together186 recipes
Shared aroma: hexanol (green, fruity).
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