Why it works: Kale and sauce work together. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 87 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓
Sea-kale
Ingredients
Directions
Tie sea-kale in bundles.
Put bundles into boiling water with coarse sea salt.
Boil gently with the lid off until tender.
Drain well and serve with French or white sauce.
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 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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Kale + saucetop 20% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together87 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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