Why it works: Meat and parsley are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,040 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓
Breakfast and Luncheon
Ingredients
Directions
Remove any excess fat from the cold joint of meat.
Place the joint on a clean, good-sized dish.
Garnish the joint with fresh parsley.
Use the parsley that decorated the joint for cooking purposes.
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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Meat + parsleytop 21% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together3,040 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
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