Why it works: Chervil and egg work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and 609 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-methylbutyraldehyde, which smells malty, chocolate. The science ↓
The recipe
Ingredients
Contains: egg, fish (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)
Directions
Remove the outer skins from the sardines using a sharp knife and cut out the bones.
Close the fillets and place them on a glass dish.
Garnish with chervil leaves, strips of gherkin, and slices of hard-boiled egg.
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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.
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Chervil + eggtop 14% of all pairsAroma overlaplowMentioned together609 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).
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