Name: Fricassee of Chickens a LA Perigord
Ingredients: 4 egg yolks; ½ cup cream; 1 small piece of butter; lemon juice to taste; coarse sea salt to taste; fat liver (in scallops); truffles; small piece of garlic

Why it works: Cream and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Fricassee of Chickens a LA Perigord

Ingredients

Directions

In a saucepan, combine egg yolks and cream to create a liaison.
Heat gently until thick, but do not let it boil.
Stir in a small piece of butter and season with lemon juice and coarse sea salt.
Prepare the fricassee by using fat liver and truffles instead of mushrooms.
Scrape a small piece of garlic and incorporate it into the sauce.
Lard the fillets with truffles and braise them separately.
Serve the braised fillets on top of the fricassee.

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.

Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together41,516 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Lemon + garlictop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together8,893 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Butter + truffletop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,209 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Liver + truffletop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together395 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-nonanal (fatty, waxy).
Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together41,227 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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 (egg, cream, butter, lemon, liver, scallop, truffle):

Nutmegfits better
Parsleyfits better
Tarragonfits better
Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, cream, butter, lemon, liver, scallop, truffle. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.