Name: Potted Meats
Ingredients: cold meat; Worcestershire sauce; cold sausage; biscuits; boiled fresh cod or salmon; egg

Why it works: Sauce and biscuit work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 197 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Potted Meats

Ingredients

Directions

Minced cold meat and mix with Worcestershire sauce.
Crush cold sausage and spread on buttered biscuits.
Boil fresh cod or salmon, then mince or blend with egg.
Serve as a filling or spread.

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.

Sauce + biscuittop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together197 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Meat + biscuittop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together159 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Salmon + eggtop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,485 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Meat + salmontop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together336 recipes

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

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together101 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).