Name: Curry of Shad Roe
Ingredients: 2 shad roes; slightly salted water; boiled rice; curry sauce

Why it works: Roe and sauce work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 142 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Curry of Shad Roe

Ingredients

2 shad roes
slightly salted water
boiled rice
curry sauce

Directions

Boil the shad roes in slightly salted water until cooked.
Arrange the roes on a dish surrounded by a border of boiled rice.
Pour curry sauce over the roes and serve.

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.

Roe + saucetop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together142 recipes

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

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,396 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Roe + ricetop 29% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together16 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).