Name: To Broil Partridges or Moor-game
Ingredients: Partridges or Moor-game; Butter; Coarse sea salt; Cayenne pepper; White pepper

Why it works: Pepper and white pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,478 recipes. Both carry piperonal, which smells bitter, coconut. The science ↓

To Broil Partridges or Moor-game

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the birds by trussing them and flattening the breast.
In a frying pan, cook the birds until firm, turning them once.
Finish cooking on a grill until nicely browned.
Serve hot with Poor Man's sauce.

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.

Pepper + white peppertop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,478 recipes

Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).
Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together85,593 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Butter + white peppertop 28% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together3,814 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).