Why it works: Sauce and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,072 recipes mention both. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓
The recipe
Ingredients
Directions
Sauté the tournedos until cooked to your liking.
Place the sautéed tournedos on a serving dish.
Pour Colbert sauce over the tournedos.
Garnish with small Duchess potatoes.
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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.
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Sauce + potatotop 14% of all pairsAroma overlaplowMentioned together1,072 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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