Name: Oyster Soup and Dumplings
Ingredients: 1 pint raw peanut milk; vegetable oysters

Why it works: Peanut and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,048 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Oyster Soup and Dumplings

Ingredients

1 pint raw peanut milk
vegetable oysters

Directions

Cook the peanut milk in a double boiler for 2 hours, stirring occasionally to prevent lumps and separation.
Prepare the vegetable oysters by scraping and cutting them into diagonal, crosswise slices.

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.

Peanut + milktop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,048 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
Milk + oystertop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,933 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Peanut + oystertop 23% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together48 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).