Name: Lamb, a LA De Rivas
Ingredients: lamb; turnips; veloute tomato sauce

Why it works: Lamb and tomato work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 979 recipes. Both carry trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Lamb, a LA De Rivas

Ingredients

lamb
turnips
veloute tomato sauce

Directions

Prepare the lamb by cutting it into pieces.
Bake the lamb until cooked through.
Serve the lamb with turnips and drizzle with veloute tomato sauce.

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.

Lamb + tomatotop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together979 recipes

Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Turnip + tomatotop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together463 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenol (green, grassy).
Lamb + turniptop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together276 recipes

Shared aroma: geraniol (rose, geranium).
Tomato + saucetop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together5,469 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Turnip + saucetop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together943 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).