Name: Terrapin Chicken
Ingredients: Terrapin; chicken; French peas; Macedoine salad; toasted crackers; canned peaches; coffee

Why it works: Peas and peach work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 26 recipes. Both carry hexanal, which smells green, grassy. The science ↓

Terrapin Chicken

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the terrapin and chicken by cooking them thoroughly.
Serve with French peas and Macedoine salad.
Toast the crackers until crisp.
Serve canned peaches as a dessert.
Brew coffee to accompany the meal.

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.

Peas + peachtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together26 recipes

Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).
Chicken + peastop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,528 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Peach + coffeetop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together52 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).
Chicken + coffeetop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together146 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).
Peas + coffeetop 24% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together70 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).