Name: Oxheart Carrots and Fresh Peas
Ingredients: Oxheart carrots; fresh peas; pine kernels

Why it works: Carrot and peas are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,994 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Oxheart Carrots and Fresh Peas

Ingredients

Oxheart carrots
fresh peas
pine kernels

Directions

Peel and slice the oxheart carrots.
Cook the fresh peas until tender.
Combine the cooked peas and carrots in a serving dish.
Top with pine kernels before serving.

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.

Carrot + peastop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,994 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).
Carrot + pinetop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together88 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Peas + pinetop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together42 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).