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Creamy Bread & Onion Sauce

A delicious necessity for any turkey roast

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 8,672 recipes mention both. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 8
Prep5 min
Cook45 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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By bbcgoodfood. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Onion + breadtop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together8,672 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Clove + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8,368 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Butter + breadtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,145 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Butter + milktop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together81,222 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  5. Butter + creamtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Flavor stand-ins for the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, butter, milk, nutmeg, cream, bread):

  1. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  2. Macebetter flavor fit
  3. Celeryabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, butter, milk, nutmeg, cream, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).