Why it works: Pheasant and rice work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 52 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓
Mock Pheasant
Ingredients
Directions
Truss the young fowl like the pheasant.
Dress the fowl according to the directions for pheasant.
Keep the fowl for four to five days for better flavor.
If preserving longer, half roast the fowl to extend its freshness.
Serve with rice sauce or bread sauce and good gravy.
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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Pheasant + ricetop 16% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together52 recipes
Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
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