Name: Deviled Cheese Sandwiches
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons tomato catsup; 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce; ½ teaspoon paprika; 8 chives, chopped fine; ¼ teaspoon salt

Why it works: Tomato and chive work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 538 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Deviled Cheese Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Mix the tomato catsup, Worcestershire sauce, paprika, chopped chives, and salt thoroughly.
Spread the mixture on saltines.

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.

Tomato + chivetop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together538 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Tomato + saucetop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together5,469 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Sauce + chivetop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together461 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).