Name: Pates a LA Ciboulette
Ingredients: pate a dresser; farce a la ciboulette; puff pastry; egg wash (for glazing); espagnole sauce; lemon juice (optional)

Why it works: Egg and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 43,327 recipes mention both. Both carry (e,e)-2,4-decadienal, which smells fatty, deep fried. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

Contains: egg, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Work and form the pate a dresser as directed.
Fill it with the farce a la ciboulette.
Cut out a cover of paste and place it over the filling, sealing it firmly to the bottom.
Make another cover of puff pastry and place it on top, checking it across.
Glaze the top with egg wash and place it in the oven.
Once cooked, remove the cover and excess fat from the pate.
Cut the filling into pieces without removing it from the shell.
Sauce it with a good espagnole sauce, adding lemon juice if desired, then serve.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

Egg + lemontop 9% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together43,327 recipes

Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).
Sauce + lemontop 20% of all pairs

Aroma overlaplow

Mentioned together6,598 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Egg + saucetop 27% of all pairs

Aroma overlaplow

Mentioned together10,401 recipes

Egg and sauce share little aroma chemistry, yet 10,401 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

The recipe marks lemon as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, sauce):

Lemonthe original
Pumpkinabout as good a flavor fit
Avocadoabout as good a flavor fit
Raisinabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).