Name: Rissoles
Ingredients: Thin slices of cold fish; Thin slices of cold meat; Thin slices of cold fowl; Thin slices of cold game; Thin slices of cheese; Forcemeat; Very thin pastry; Hot lard or frying oil; Crisped parsley for garnish

Why it works: Fish and meat work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 479 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Rissoles

Ingredients

Directions

Lay thin slices of cold fish, meat, fowl, game, cheese, or forcemeat between two layers of very thin pastry.
Seal the edges well to prevent filling from escaping.
Fry the patties in hot lard or frying oil until golden brown.
Serve garnished with crisped parsley.

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.

Fish + meattop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together479 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Fish + cheesetop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together135 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Meat + cheesetop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together564 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Fish + parsleytop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,341 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Meat + parsleytop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,040 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).