Why it works: Quail and pepper work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 391 recipes. Both carry sabinene, which smells woody, terpenic. The science ↓
To Broil Quail
Ingredients
Directions
Dress the quail and split them down the back.
Sprinkle the quail with coarse sea salt and black pepper.
Place the quail on a broiler, inside down.
Broil slowly at first.
Serve the quail on toast with cream gravy.
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.
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Quail + peppertop 19% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together391 recipes
Shared aroma: sabinene (woody, terpenic).
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Quail + creamtop 21% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together64 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).
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Pepper + creamtop 23% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together21,449 recipes
Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).
Pepper and cream barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 21,449 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.
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