Why it works: Meat and peas work together. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 573 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓
Peas Soup
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the soup using cold meat, marrow bone, or just water.
If using meat or bones, add them to the pot with water.
Bring to a boil and then simmer until the peas are tender.
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.
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Meat + peastop 18% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together573 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
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