Name: Meat, Game, and Almond Soup
Ingredients: 1 quart stock; 1 pint milk; 2 hard-boiled eggs; 1 ounce almonds; 2 ounces bread crumbs; 2 ounces cooked white meat or poultry; seasoning

Why it works: Milk and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,466 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Meat, Game, and Almond Soup

Ingredients

Directions

Mince the meat and pound it in a mortar with the bread and egg yolks, moistening with hot stock.
Add the finely ground almonds.
Pour the mixture over the remaining stock in a clean saucepan.
In another saucepan, heat the milk.

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.

Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,466 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together22,662 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
Bread + meattop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,924 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Milk + almondtop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together5,800 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Almond + breadtop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together858 recipes

Shared aroma: acetylpyrazine (roast).