Name: Caviar Sur Croutes
Ingredients: Small rounds of fried or toasted bread; Caviar; Dried and powdered lobster coral; Pepper

Why it works: Bread and caviar work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 65 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Caviar Sur Croutes

Ingredients

Small rounds of fried or toasted bread
Caviar
Dried and powdered lobster coral
Pepper

Directions

Warm the caviar in a saucer inside the oven.
Spread the caviar on the bread using a silver knife.
Sprinkle with a little dried and powdered lobster coral.
Arrange in a circle on a serving dish.
Dust lightly with pepper.

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.

Bread + caviartop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together65 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together20,964 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Bread + lobstertop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together736 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).
Caviar + lobstertop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together29 recipes
Lobster + peppertop 27% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,247 recipes

Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).