Why it works: Meat and biscuit work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 159 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓
Meat Dumplings
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare cold meat as described for meat pie.
Make biscuit dough.
Cut dough into pieces for dumplings.
Roll each piece to ¼ inch thick and the size of a pint bowl.
Place a small tablespoon of meat in the center of each dough piece.
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.
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Meat + biscuittop 15% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together159 recipes
Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
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