Name: Potatoe Pie
Ingredients: 2-3 tablespoons milk; potatoes; salt; mutton, beef, pork, or veal

Why it works: Milk and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,611 recipes. Both carry (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, melon. The science ↓

Potatoe Pie

Ingredients

2-3 tablespoons milk
potatoes
salt
mutton, beef, pork, or veal

Directions

Skin the potatoes and cut them into slices.
Season the potato slices and the meat.
Layer the potato slices and meat in a pie dish.
Cover with a crust and add milk on top.

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 + potatotop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,611 recipes

Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).
Potato + muttontop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together293 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Milk + muttontop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together814 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).