Why it works: Anchovy and olive work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 880 recipes. Both carry hexanol, which smells green, fruity. The science ↓
Anchovy Butter
Ingredients
Directions
Place a stuffed olive in the center of each anchovy fillet.
Twist the anchovy fillet around the olive.
Heat and serve hot.
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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Anchovy + olivetop 12% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together880 recipes
Shared aroma: hexanol (green, fruity).
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