Name: Dinner — Stuffed Fillet of Veal Garnished with Green Peas
Ingredients: 1 fillet of veal; green peas; mashed potatoes; summer squash

Why it works: Peas and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,016 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Dinner — Stuffed Fillet of Veal Garnished with Green Peas

Ingredients

1 fillet of veal
green peas
mashed potatoes
summer squash

Directions

Prepare the veal fillet by stuffing it with your choice of filling.
Cook the stuffed fillet until fully done.
Serve the fillet garnished with green peas.
Prepare mashed potatoes and summer squash as side dishes.

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.

Peas + potatotop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,016 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).
Veal + peastop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together644 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Veal + potatotop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together343 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).