Why it works: Sauce and parsley are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 23% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,693 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓
Green Mayonnaise
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare mayonnaise sauce as per your preferred recipe.
Boil parsley until tender, then drain and cool.
Blend the boiled parsley until smooth.
Strain the parsley through a fine sieve or tammy.
Mix the strained parsley into the mayonnaise until well combined.
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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Sauce + parsleytop 23% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together6,693 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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