Name: Tomato Relish
Ingredients: sandwich loaf bread; anchovies; tomato; caviar; hard-boiled egg; Mayonnaise Dressing

Why it works: Bread and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,013 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Tomato Relish

Ingredients

Directions

Butter and cut thin slices of sandwich loaf bread.
Place two anchovies on each slice.
Cover with one slice of tomato.
Add caviar on top.
Sprinkle with grated hard-boiled egg.
Top with a little Mayonnaise Dressing.

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 + tomatotop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,013 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Caviar + eggtop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together101 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together22,662 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
Bread + caviartop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together65 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Tomato + caviartop 31% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together14 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).