Name: Chaud-froid a LA Belle Alliance
Ingredients: cold fonds d’artichauts (as many as guests); tender fowl; pounded mushroom; cold boiled tongue; veloute sauce (made from bones, skin, and fresh meat); truffle (for garnish)

Why it works: Mushroom and truffle are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,900 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Chaud-froid a LA Belle Alliance

Ingredients

cold fonds d’artichauts (as many as guests)
tender fowl
pounded mushroom
cold boiled tongue
veloute sauce (made from bones, skin, and fresh meat)
truffle (for garnish)

Directions

Lightly roast the fowl and let it cool.
Cut fillets from the fowl to fit the fonds d’artichauts.
Make a puree with the scraps of meat and pounded mushroom.
Slice the cold boiled tongue into rounds matching the number of fillets.
Prepare a veloute sauce using the bones and skin, reducing it as needed.
Moisten the puree with a little veloute sauce and fill the fonds.
Layer the tongue slices and more puree on top, then place the fillets.
Cover the entire dish with thick chaud-froid sauce and let it cool.
Trim neatly, set on a napkin, and garnish each with a piece of truffle.

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.

Mushroom + truffletop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,900 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Meat + truffletop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together527 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Mushroom + meattop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,423 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Mushroom + saucetop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together4,480 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Sauce + meattop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,167 recipes