Name: With Truffles
Ingredients: ½ cup brown veal gravy; ½ cup brown sauce; 2 tablespoons chicken glaze; 4 good-sized truffles

Why it works: Veal and truffle work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 815 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

With Truffles

Ingredients

½ cup brown veal gravy
½ cup brown sauce
2 tablespoons chicken glaze
4 good-sized truffles

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Moisten a pan with brown veal gravy and brown sauce.
Add chicken glaze to the pan.
Cut truffles into thick slices and add to the sauce.
Let the sauce simmer for 10 minutes.
Pour the sauce over the chicken.
Seal the pan hermetically with paste.
Cook in a 400°F (200°C) oven for 20 minutes.
Serve in the tureen.

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.

Veal + truffletop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together815 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Veal + chickentop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,243 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-butanedione (buttery, creamy).
Chicken + truffletop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together756 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Sauce + truffletop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,490 recipes
Sauce + chickentop 23% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together4,513 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).