Why it works: Chicken and parmesan cheese are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,846 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓
Raised Macaroni Pie
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare and bake a pie crust.
In separate pans, stew hot macaroni and make a white fricassee of chicken.
Layer the macaroni and chicken alternately in the pie.
Sprinkle grated Parmesan cheese on top before serving.
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.
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Chicken + parmesan cheesetop 14% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together1,846 recipes
Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).
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