Name: Smoked Cod's Roe Canapees
Ingredients: bread croutons; fresh butter; potted cod's roe paste; hard-boiled eggs; finely chopped parsley

Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Smoked Cod's Roe Canapees

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare bread croutons as in the previous recipe.
Spread croutons thinly with fresh butter.
Add a layer of potted cod's roe paste on top.
Garnish with slices of hard-boiled eggs and finely chopped parsley.

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.

Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together27,232 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together22,662 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
Roe + eggtop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together243 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
Butter + roetop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together442 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).
Butter + parsleytop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together28,563 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).