Name: Minced Lamb
Ingredients: Lamb, minced; Eggs; Cracked wheat; Coffee; Ripe fruit

Why it works: Lamb and wheat work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 56 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Minced Lamb

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare minced lamb by cooking it until tender.
Boil eggs to your desired doneness.
Make cracked wheat griddle cakes using cooked cracked wheat.
Brew coffee.
Serve with ripe fruit.

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.

Lamb + wheattop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together56 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
Wheat + coffeetop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together105 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Egg + wheattop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,225 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Lamb + coffeetop 24% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together32 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Lamb + eggtop 27% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,204 recipes

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