Why it works: Barley and meat work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 224 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓
Sheep’s Head Broth
Ingredients
Directions
Boil the fowl for 1 hour.
Add 1 ounce of barley and skim when vegetables come to a boil.
Keep the pot boiling for 5 hours.
Remove the fowl when cooked and heat it in the broth.
Serve the fowl with the broth or in another dish.
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.
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Barley + meattop 13% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together224 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
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