Squab Pie

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.

1. Apple + sugartop 18% of all pairs
   Smell alikelow
   Cooked together16,478 recipes

   Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

2. Mutton + oniontop 18% of all pairs
   Smell alikelow
   Cooked together4,531 recipes

   Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

3. Apple + oniontop 19% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together3,206 recipes

   Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

4. Apple + muttontop 29% of all pairs
   Smell alikelow
   Cooked together278 recipes

   Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

5. Mutton + sugartop 34% of all pairs
   Smell alikelow
   Cooked together726 recipes

   Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Apple and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 16,478 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apple, mutton, sugar):

1. Capsicumfits better
2. Carrotfits better
3. Parsnipfits better
4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apple, mutton, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.