Why it works: Beef and mutton are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,373 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓
Kippered Salmon
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare kippered salmon by cleaning and cooking it according to your preference.
Fry the liver and bacon until cooked through.
Fry the whiting until golden brown.
Cook the corned beef until heated through.
Boil rice as you would for curry.
Serve rice separately with the soup.
Prepare shrimp or anchovy sauce as a condiment.
Bake Vienna bread according to your recipe.
Roast the shoulder of mutton until tender.
Boil onions until soft.
Boil potatoes until tender.
Serve brown and white bread with butter.
Prepare hayrick puddings according to your recipe.
Serve cheese as a side.
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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Beef + muttontop 10% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together2,373 recipes
Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
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Beef + ricetop 10% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together2,265 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).
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Rice + shrimptop 11% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together1,055 recipes
Shared aroma: 3-methylbutanol (malty, whiskey).
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Bread + muttontop 12% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together1,488 recipes
Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
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Beef + breadtop 13% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together4,032 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).
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