Name: Calf's Head Curried with Rice
Ingredients: slices of calf's head meat; curry sauce; stock (veal or chicken); dry boiled rice

Why it works: Meat and rice are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,481 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Calf's Head Curried with Rice

Ingredients

slices of calf's head meat
curry sauce
stock (veal or chicken)
dry boiled rice

Directions

Heat the slices of calf's head meat in a good curry sauce made from the stock the head was boiled in, or veal or chicken stock.
Arrange a border of dry boiled rice around the dish.

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.

Meat + ricetop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,481 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Meat + vealtop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,890 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Veal + ricetop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,119 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Sauce + ricetop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,396 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Meat + saucetop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,167 recipes