Why it works: Mushroom and mutton work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 685 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓
Breakfast Dishes
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the fowl by spreading it out flat and cooking it until done.
Sauté the mushrooms and serve alongside the fowl.
Cook the curried sausages until heated through.
Grill the mutton cutlets and serve with mixed hot pickles in the center.
Poach the eggs and serve them on slices of grilled ham.
Grill the salmon until cooked and serve on the table.
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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Mushroom + muttontop 13% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together685 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
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Mutton + hamtop 14% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together430 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
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Mushroom + hamtop 15% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together1,486 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
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Egg + salmontop 16% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together3,485 recipes
Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
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Egg + hamtop 17% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together4,526 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
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