Name: Raised Pie
Ingredients: equal quantities of finely-chopped veal and pork; veal forcemeat; pasta (see Pork Pie); coarsely-chopped truffle; jelly-like game stock; 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 salt and pepper, and add 1 or 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 pastry as described in the Pork Pie recipe, lining the bottom and sides with veal forcemeat.
Layer the prepared game in the pie, 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 pastry lid on top.
Follow the directions for preparing, baking, and finishing the Pork Pie.

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).
Pasta + peppertop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,091 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Pork + pastatop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together653 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).