Why it works: Beef and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,220 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓
Beef Olives
Ingredients
Directions
Roll the forcemeat in the beef slices.
Insert a small skewer through each olive.
Dip the olives in batter.
Fry the olives in boiling lard until cooked.
Drain the olives and serve with stewed French olives around.
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.
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Beef + olivetop 11% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together5,220 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
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