Name: Stewed Salsify with Cream Sauce
Ingredients: salsify; vinegar; Cream Sauce; parsley

Why it works: Cream and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,787 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Stewed Salsify with Cream Sauce

Ingredients

salsify
vinegar
Cream Sauce
parsley

Directions

Boil the salsify until tender, then cut it into 2-inch lengths.
Prepare a rich Cream Sauce (see separate recipe).
Place the salsify on a serving dish and sprinkle a few drops of vinegar on each piece.
Pour the Cream Sauce over the salsify.
Alternatively, make a White Sauce (see separate recipe) and add a little vinegar.
Lay the salsify in the White Sauce, set over boiling water, and stew for 10 to 15 minutes.
Serve and sprinkle finely chopped parsley on top.

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.

Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,787 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Vinegar + parsleytop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together6,477 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Sauce + parsleytop 23% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together6,693 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Vinegar + creamtop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,064 recipes

Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).
Vinegar + saucetop 26% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together3,844 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).