Name: Roast Beef
Ingredients: Beef; Pan gravy; Yorkshire pudding; Horseradish sauce

Why it works: Horseradish and sauce work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 775 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Roast Beef

Ingredients

Beef
Pan gravy
Yorkshire pudding
Horseradish sauce

Directions

Prepare the roast beef according to your preferred method.
Make pan gravy using the drippings from the roast.
Serve with Yorkshire pudding and horseradish sauce.

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.

Horseradish + saucetop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together775 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Beef + horseradishtop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together491 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).
Beef + saucetop 24% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together3,650 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).