Name: Curry of Cold Lamb
Ingredients: Cold lamb; Curry powder; Boiled rice; Baked bananas; Soda crackers

Why it works: Lamb and rice work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 439 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Curry of Cold Lamb

Ingredients

Directions

Cut the cold lamb into pieces.
Sprinkle curry powder over the lamb and mix well.
Serve with boiled rice on the side.
Accompany with baked bananas and soda crackers.

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.

Lamb + ricetop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together439 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Rice + bananatop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together228 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).
Lamb + bananatop 28% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together30 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).