Name: Potato and Truffle Salad
Ingredients: cold boiled kidney potatoes; black truffles; remoulade sauce

Why it works: Potato and truffle work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 103 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Potato and Truffle Salad

Ingredients

cold boiled kidney potatoes
black truffles
remoulade sauce

Directions

Slice the cold boiled kidney potatoes and black truffles thinly.
Arrange them in a salad bowl on a glass or silver dish.
Drizzle the remoulade sauce over the arranged potatoes and truffles.
Shake the salad in a wire basket or cloth to dry it well before serving.

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.

Potato + truffletop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together103 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Truffle + saucetop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,490 recipes
Potato + saucetop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,073 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).