Name: Sea- Kale
Ingredients: sea kale; coarse sea salt; butter; toast; black pepper; drawn butter

Why it works: Kale and pepper work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 492 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Sea- Kale

Ingredients

Directions

Pick over the sea kale carefully and tie it in bunches.
Soak the bunches in cold water for 30 minutes.
Boil salted water and cook the sea kale for 25 minutes.
Place buttered toast in a deep dish.
Remove the threads from the kale and lay it on the toast.
Season with black pepper and pour drawn butter over it.

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.

Kale + peppertop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together492 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together85,593 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Kale + buttertop 27% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together247 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).