Why it works: Liver and bread work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 731 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓
Roasted Liver
Ingredients
Directions
The book gives no oven temperature. The 300°F (150°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.
Preheat the oven to 300°F (150°C).
Layer the finely chopped vegetables in the bottom of a roasting pan.
Cover the liver with bread crumbs and lay thin strips of bacon on top.
Place the liver on the vegetables in the pan.
Roast slowly for about 2 hours, basting frequently with good stock or boiling water.
Thicken the sauce as desired.
Cover the liver with a second pan to prevent the surface from hardening.
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 + breadtop 16% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together731 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
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