Name: Modern Cookery
Ingredients: egg; bread crumbs; thin slices of uniform size; peas; tomato puree; vegetables; bechamel sauce; curry powder

Why it works: Peas and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,058 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Modern Cookery

Ingredients

Directions

Dip the thin slices into beaten egg and coat with bread crumbs.
Fry the slices until golden brown.
Stew the slices until tender, then drain well.
Glaze the slices and arrange them in a circle on a plate.
Serve with peas in the center or with a thick tomato puree or other vegetable puree.
For vol-au-vents, keep the filling very white and mix with a good bechamel sauce.
For a curried version, mix with plenty of vegetables or other meat after baking or stewing.

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.

Peas + tomatotop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,058 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Bread + tomatotop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,013 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Bread + peastop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together804 recipes

Shared aroma: hexyl acetate (fruity, apple).
Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together22,662 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
Tomato + saucetop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together5,469 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).