Name: Made Dishes of Lamb
Ingredients: livers; truffles; forcemeat; egg whites; egg yolks; spinach juice; coarse sea salt (formerly 'bay salt'); aspic jelly

Why it works: Liver and truffle work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 395 recipes. Both carry 1-nonanal, which smells fatty, waxy. The science ↓

Made Dishes of Lamb

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare an omelette using egg whites and yolks, coloring it with spinach juice.
Once cold, cut the omelette into long strips.
Layer forcemeat, omelette strips, truffles, and fat livers in a dish.
Spread more forcemeat over the top, then roll it up tightly and tie it in a cloth.
Stew gently for 3 to 4 hours.
Let it cool in the cooking liquid, then refrigerate for 2 days before slicing.
Trim the dish and garnish with minced aspic jelly.

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.

Liver + truffletop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together395 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-nonanal (fatty, waxy).
Truffle + eggtop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,604 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-octenal (fatty, green).
Egg + spinachtop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,323 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Truffle + spinachtop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together76 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Liver + spinachtop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together46 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).