Name: Scollops of Fat Pullets El LA Conti, with Truffles
Ingredients: Fat pullets (chicken); Butter; Truffles; Coarse sea salt; Thick cream; Broth

Why it works: Butter and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Scollops of Fat Pullets El LA Conti, with Truffles

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the scollops as usual.
Peel and cut the truffles into rounds the same size as the scollops.
Season the truffles and scollops with a little coarse sea salt.
Toss the truffles and scollops in butter just before serving.
Make a smooth sauce by adding a reduction of truffles to broth.
Add three or four spoonfuls of thick cream to the sauce to make it white.
Season the sauce to taste and strain it through a tammy for brightness.

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.

Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together41,516 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Butter + truffletop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,209 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Chicken + truffletop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together756 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Chicken + buttertop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together13,902 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).
Truffle + creamtop 23% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together629 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).