Name: Cannelons of Beef, with Iced Sauce
Ingredients: thin slices of beef fillet; forcemeat; stock; iced sauce a la Barbe; chopped aspic or vegetable salad; artichoke bottoms (optional); white sauce (optional); coralline pepper

Why it works: Beef and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 18,971 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Cannelons of Beef, with Iced Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Cut thin slices from a fillet of beef.
Pound the slices and stuff them with forcemeat.
Roll and tie them up in muslin, then braise in stock.
Let them cool, untie, and glaze.
Set them upright on a dish and top with iced sauce.
Fill the center with a croustade of bread or a block of rice, coated with chopped aspic or salad.
Garnish with artichoke bottoms masked with white sauce and iced sauce blocks.
Sprinkle the tops with coralline pepper.

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.

Beef + peppertop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together18,971 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Artichoke + peppertop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,170 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Sauce + artichoketop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together462 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Beef + artichoketop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together140 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Beef + saucetop 24% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together3,650 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).