Name: Egg Wine
Ingredients: 3 egg yolks; 3 teaspoons sugar; 1 pint white or red wine; 1 pint water

Why it works: Egg and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 122,807 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Egg Wine

Ingredients

3 egg yolks
3 teaspoons sugar
1 pint white or red wine
1 pint water

Directions

Thoroughly mix the yolks of three eggs with three teaspoons of sugar.
Add one pint of white or red wine and one pint of water.
Serve with zwieback or wafers.

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.

Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together122,807 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Sugar + red winetop 32% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together864 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Egg + red winetop 33% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together552 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).