Name: Winter Radishes with Cream Sauce
Ingredients: radishes; water; Cream Sauce

Why it works: Cream and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,787 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Winter Radishes with Cream Sauce

Ingredients

radishes
water
Cream Sauce

Directions

Pare and slice the radishes crosswise.
Boil the radishes in water for 20 minutes.
Transfer the radishes to a heated dish.
Cover with Cream Sauce and serve hot.

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.

Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,787 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Radish + saucetop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together108 recipes

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

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together106 recipes

Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).