Name: Fat Livers in Gratin, in Paper Cases
Ingredients: fat livers; gratin; oil; sauce (with lemon juice)

Why it works: Liver and sauce work together. They rank in the top 23% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 499 recipes. Both carry decanoic acid, which smells soapy, waxy. The science ↓

Fat Livers in Gratin, in Paper Cases

Ingredients

fat livers
gratin
oil
sauce (with lemon juice)

Directions

Cover the bottoms of paper cases with gratin.
Oil the outsides of the paper cases.
Place the cooked livers over the gratin.
Cook on a gridiron over low heat.
Transfer the cases to a dish, remove excess fat, and sauce with lemon juice.

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.

Liver + saucetop 23% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together499 recipes

Shared aroma: decanoic acid (soapy, waxy).
Liver + lemontop 27% of all pairs

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Cooked together768 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Sauce + lemontop 30% of all pairs

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Cooked together6,598 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).