Name: Beef-heart
Ingredients: 1 beef heart; rich gravy; currant jelly; port wine

Why it works: Currant and port wine work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 356 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Beef-heart

Ingredients

1 beef heart
rich gravy
currant jelly
port wine

Directions

Wash the beef heart carefully.
Stuff the heart as you would a hare.
Serve with rich gravy and currant jelly.
Hash the remaining heart and serve with port wine.

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.

Currant + port winetop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together356 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).
Beef + port winetop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together626 recipes

Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).
Beef + curranttop 28% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,464 recipes

Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).