Name: Mould with Carrots and Green Peas
Ingredients: Carrots; Green peas; Glazed chicken; Truffles; Cold boiled cocks' comb; Ice; Coarse sea salt (formerly 'bay salt')

Why it works: Carrot and peas are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,994 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Mould with Carrots and Green Peas

Ingredients

Directions

Steam the carrots and green peas until tender.
Let the mixture cool, then set it in ice.
Once cold, carefully turn it out onto a cold silver dish.
Fill the hollow center with pieces of glazed chicken, adding slices of truffle as you arrange them.
Garnish the top with cold boiled cocks' comb and truffles.
Keep the dish in the ice-box until ready to 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Carrot + peastop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,994 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).
Chicken + truffletop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together756 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Peas + chickentop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,528 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Peas + truffletop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together139 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Carrot + chickentop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,338 recipes

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