French White Puddings

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.

1. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together22,662 recipes

   Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

2. Meat + breadtop 14% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together2,924 recipes

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

3. Bread + oniontop 15% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together8,676 recipes

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

4. Meat + oniontop 17% of all pairs
   Smell alikelow
   Cooked together6,364 recipes

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

5. Onion + creamtop 18% of all pairs
   Smell alikelow
   Cooked together10,827 recipes

   Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

Onion and cream barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 10,827 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, bread, cream, egg):

1. Asparagusfits better
2. Leekfits better
3. Spinachfits better
4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, bread, cream, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.