Name: To Pot Partridge
Ingredients: Partridge; mace; allspice; white pepper; coarse sea salt

Why it works: Mace and allspice are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,189 recipes. Both carry methyleugenol, which smells clove, spice. The science ↓

To Pot Partridge

Ingredients

Directions

Clean the partridges thoroughly.
Season the partridges with finely powdered mace, allspice, white pepper, and coarse sea salt.
Rub the seasoning into every part of the partridges.

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.

Mace + allspicetop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,189 recipes

Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).
Mace + white peppertop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,695 recipes

Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).
Allspice + white peppertop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together272 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).