Why it works: Egg and potato match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and 4,716 recipes mention both. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓
The recipe
Ingredients
Contains: egg (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)
Directions
Cook the eggs in an omelette pan.
Trim the cooked eggs with a round fancy cutter.
Prepare small discs of Duchesse potatoes, the same size as the eggs, and brown them in the oven.
Place each egg on a disc of Duchesse potatoes.
Arrange the eggs in a circle on the dish.
Put chicken mincemeat in the center.
Surround the chicken mincemeat with a border of Supreme sauce.
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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.
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Egg + potatotop 16% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together4,716 recipes
Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
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Potato + chickentop 3% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together2,756 recipes
Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).
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Chicken + saucetop 12% of all pairsAroma overlaplowMentioned together4,512 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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Potato + saucetop 14% of all pairsAroma overlaplowMentioned together1,072 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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Egg + chickentop 18% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together8,275 recipes
Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Flavor stand-ins for the potato
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, chicken, sauce):
- Capsicumbetter flavor fit
- Asparagusbetter flavor fit
- Tomatoabout as good a flavor fit
- Potatothe original
Fit is the average pairing score against egg, chicken, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).
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