Name: Cheese and Tongue Ramakins
Ingredients: grated cheese; 1 tablespoon minced tongue, boiled and cold; 1 cup hot cream; ¼ teaspoon baking soda; buttered toast

Why it works: Cheese and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,655 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Cheese and Tongue Ramakins

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

Mix the grated cheese and minced tongue together.
Stir in the hot cream with dissolved baking soda.
Boil the mixture once.
Pour the mixture over rounds of buttered toast.

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.

Cheese + creamtop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,655 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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Cheese and Tongue Ramakins