Name: Carrots for Small Garniture, Olive-shaped
Ingredients: Carrots; 4 tablespoons Cream; Allemande sauce or Brown sauce

Why it works: Cream and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,787 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Carrots for Small Garniture, Olive-shaped

Ingredients

Carrots
4 tablespoons Cream
Allemande sauce or Brown sauce

Directions

Cut the carrots into olive shapes using a spoon cutter.
Cook the carrots as described in the previous recipe.
Once glazed, add 4 tablespoons of either Allemande sauce or Brown sauce, depending on your preference.

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.

Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,787 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Carrot + saucetop 24% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,509 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Carrot + creamtop 29% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,215 recipes

Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).