Name: Beefsteak and Gravy
Ingredients: Beefsteak; Gravy; Boiled potatoes; Bread; Coffee

Why it works: Potato and coffee work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 167 recipes. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

Beefsteak and Gravy

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the beefsteak to your desired doneness.
Prepare the gravy using the drippings from the beefsteak.
Boil the potatoes until tender.
Serve the beefsteak with gravy, boiled potatoes, bread, and coffee.

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.

Potato + coffeetop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together167 recipes

Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).
Potato + breadtop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together434 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).
Bread + coffeetop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together267 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).