Name: Turkey Dressing
Ingredients: 1 can sausage; 1 can truffles; 1 can chestnuts; salt to taste; pepper to taste; 2 small onions

Why it works: Chestnut and onion match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 696 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Turkey Dressing

Ingredients

Directions

Chop the truffles and chestnuts finely.
In a bowl, mix the chopped truffles, chestnuts, sausage, salt, and pepper.
Chop the onions very finely and add to the mixture.
Mix well to combine all ingredients.

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.

Chestnut + oniontop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together696 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together68,474 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Chestnut + peppertop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together826 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
Truffle + chestnuttop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together79 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).
Truffle + oniontop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together887 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).