Name: Consommé Au Riz En Pilau
Ingredients: assorted cooked meats (beef, mutton, veal, pork, poultry, or game); water; coarse sea salt; black peppercorns; 1 onion; 3 cloves; bouquet garni; bacon rinds

Why it works: Onion and clove are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 16,901 recipes. Both carry 2-nonanone, which smells fruity, floral. The science ↓

Consommé Au Riz En Pilau

Ingredients

Directions

Gather all leftover cooked meats and remove any gristle or skin.
Break the bones into small pieces and set aside.
In a saucepan, add water based on the amount of meat and bones you have.
Add salt, peppercorns, the onion with cloves, bouquet garni, and bacon rinds.
Bring to a boil over high heat and let it simmer to extract flavors.

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.

Onion + clovetop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together16,901 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).
Meat + oniontop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together6,364 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Meat + clovetop 24% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,038 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).