Name: Lambs' Tongues with Tomato Sauce
Ingredients: lamb tongues; rich tomato sauce

Why it works: Lamb and tomato work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 979 recipes. Both carry trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Lambs' Tongues with Tomato Sauce

Ingredients

lamb tongues
rich tomato sauce

Directions

Cook the lamb tongues as directed in the previous recipe, omitting the boiled vegetables.
Serve the lamb tongues with a rich tomato sauce.

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.

Lamb + tomatotop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together979 recipes

Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Tomato + saucetop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together5,469 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Lamb + saucetop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together925 recipes

Shared aroma: decanoic acid (soapy, waxy).