Name: Ordinary Herbs Stuffing
Ingredients: 8 ounces bread crumbs; 4 ounces suet; 1 tablespoon powdered herbs; ¼ teaspoon mace; 1 teaspoon seasoning salt; 3 whole eggs

Why it works: Bread and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 22,662 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Ordinary Herbs Stuffing

Ingredients

Directions

In a bowl, combine bread crumbs, suet, powdered herbs, mace, and seasoning salt.
Mix well with a wooden spoon.
Add the whole eggs and mix until fully incorporated.

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.

Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together22,662 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
Bread + macetop 24% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together3,005 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
Mace + eggtop 35% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together7,587 recipes