Name: Stuffing for Mock Duck
Ingredients: 2 cups corn-bread crumbs; 1 cup fat; 1 cup bread crumbs; 1 cup milk or water or stock; 1 onion, minced; 1 tablespoon chopped parsley

Why it works: Onion and parsley are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 25,843 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Stuffing for Mock Duck

Ingredients

Directions

In a bowl, combine corn-bread crumbs, fat, bread crumbs, and minced onion.
Add enough milk, water, or stock to soften the mixture.
Stir in chopped parsley.
Use the stuffing to fill the mock duck.

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.

Onion + parsleytop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together25,843 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Corn + milktop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together6,955 recipes

Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).
Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,466 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
Corn + parsleytop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together943 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Corn + oniontop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,205 recipes

Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).