Name: Veal and Parsley Pie
Ingredients: Slices of veal (or chicken); Coarse sea salt; Fresh parsley; New milk; Good scalded cream

Why it works: Veal and parsley are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,766 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Veal and Parsley Pie

Oven, in the book's wordsA slow oven

Ingredients

Directions

Cut slices from the leg or neck of veal, seasoning with coarse sea salt.
Scald and dry the parsley, then chop it slightly.
Layer the parsley at the bottom of a dish, followed by the meat in layers.
Fill the dish with new milk, ensuring it doesn't touch the crust.
Cover the dish and bake until done.
After baking, pour out some milk and add ½ pint of good scalded cream.

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 + parsleytop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together4,766 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Milk + creamtop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together29,399 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Veal + milktop 24% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,013 recipes

Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).
Parsley + milktop 26% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together7,011 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Veal + creamtop 27% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together3,202 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).