Name: Mashed Potato a LA Elizabeth
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons finely chopped chives or 4 tablespoons finely chopped onions; butter

Why it works: Chive and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,097 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Mashed Potato a LA Elizabeth

Ingredients

2 tablespoons finely chopped chives or 4 tablespoons finely chopped onions
butter

Directions

Add chives or onions to mashed potatoes and mix well.
Transfer to a serving dish and create depressions in the potatoes.
Place small bits of butter in the depressions.
Alternatively, use a pastry bag to pipe the mixture into the serving dish.

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.

Chive + buttertop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,097 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

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Mashed Potato a LA Elizabeth