Name: Partridges with Cranberries, American
Ingredients: partridges; gravy; fried crumbs; cranberry sauce; currant jelly

Why it works: Cranberry and currant work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Partridges with Cranberries, American

Ingredients

Directions

Roast the partridges until nicely cooked.
Serve the roasted partridges with gravy and fried crumbs.
Provide a generous supply of cranberry sauce and currant jelly on the side.

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.

Cranberry + curranttop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together81 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).
Cranberry + saucetop 20% of all pairs

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Cooked together480 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Sauce + curranttop 35% of all pairs

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Cooked together628 recipes