Name: Stewed Duck
Ingredients: Duck pieces; Bitter orange juice; Oranges; Coarse sea salt (formerly 'bay salt'); Olives

Why it works: Orange and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,456 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Stewed Duck

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare a round potato border on a serving dish.
Arrange the duck pieces neatly on the potato border.
Squeeze bitter orange juice over the duck.
Fill the center with orange compote.
Garnish the border with heated olives and orange segments.

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.

Photo for illustrative purposes only · Contact us to use it

Explore the science

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.

Orange + olivetop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,456 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Bitter orange + orangetop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together23 recipes

Shared aroma: acetal (cream, earthy).
Bitter orange + olivetop 34% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together4 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).