Name: Veal with Endives for Luncheon
Ingredients: Endives; Cold filet of veal; Egg; Bread crumbs; Butter

Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Veal with Endives for Luncheon

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare endives like spinach, but do not chop finely.
Cut cold filet of veal into even slices.
Dip the veal slices in egg, then coat with bread crumbs.
Fry the coated veal slices in hot butter until golden.
Arrange the veal in a circle on a bed of prepared endives and serve.

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.

Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together27,232 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together22,662 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
Veal + breadtop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together3,056 recipes

Shared aroma: cis-3-hexenol (green, grassy).
Endive + breadtop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together39 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together118,967 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).