Name: Aspic Jelly
Ingredients: 1 pint aspic jelly; prawns; 1 egg; lobster coral; endive for decoration

Why it works: Lobster and endive work together. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 42 recipes. Both carry octanal, which smells fat, soap. The science ↓

Aspic Jelly

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare 1 pint of aspic jelly according to package instructions.
Arrange prawns in a mold.
Pour the aspic jelly over the prawns and let it set.
Once set, garnish with lobster coral and endive.
Serve chilled.

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.

Lobster + endivetop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together42 recipes

Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).
Egg + lobstertop 28% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,484 recipes

Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).
Egg + endivetop 29% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together207 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).