Name: Raised Pie
Ingredients: Game of any kind; ½ cup finely chopped veal; ½ cup finely chopped pork; Veal force-meat; Chopped truffle (1-2 tablespoons); Stock that will jelly when cold; 1 egg; Coarse sea salt; Black pepper

Why it works: Veal and truffle work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 815 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Raised Pie

Ingredients

Directions

Mix the veal and pork together, seasoning liberally with coarse sea salt and black pepper, and add 1-2 tablespoons of chopped truffle.
Divide the game birds into neat joints, removing all bones except those deeply embedded in the flesh.
Make and mold the paste, lining the bottom and sides with veal force-meat.
Place the prepared game inside, seasoning each layer with salt and pepper, and intersperse small pieces of the meat farce, leaving spaces for stock.
Pile the game high in the center, cover with a thin layer of veal farce, and place the cover 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.

Veal + truffletop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together815 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Pork + truffletop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,380 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-ethylphenol (must).
Veal + porktop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,930 recipes

Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).
Pork + meattop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,208 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Meat + truffletop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together527 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).