Name: Lenox Rabbit
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon butter; 1 cup milk; 1 teaspoon salt; ¼ teaspoon pepper; a few grains cayenne pepper; 6 eggs; 1 (5 oz) cream cheese; toast for serving

Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Lenox Rabbit

Ingredients

Directions

Melt the butter in a pan.
Add the milk, salt, pepper, and cayenne to the pan and heat.
Beat the eggs slightly and add them to the heated milk mixture.
Cook the mixture like scrambled eggs until nearly done.
Stir in the cream cheese until smooth.
Serve the mixture on toast.

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.

Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together81,283 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Butter + cream cheesetop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,747 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
Milk + cream cheesetop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,393 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).
Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together118,967 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together88,785 recipes

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