Why it works: Peas and bread work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and 804 recipes mention both. Both carry hexyl acetate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓
Ik Peas Soup
Ingredients
Directions
Put peas into a clean stewpan and heat them.
Season with a little salt.
Serve with toasted bread cut into half-inch square pieces on a plate as a side dish.
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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.
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Peas + breadtop 11% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together804 recipes
Shared aroma: hexyl acetate (fruity, apple).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
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