Name: Vanilla Sauce
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon vanilla; Lemon Sauce ingredients (omit lemon juice and rind)

Why it works: Vanilla and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,961 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Vanilla Sauce

Ingredients

1 tablespoon vanilla
Lemon Sauce ingredients (omit lemon juice and rind)

Directions

Prepare Lemon Sauce without adding lemon juice and rind.
Stir in 1 tablespoon of vanilla.

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.

Vanilla + lemontop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together5,961 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Lemon + saucetop 30% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together6,598 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Vanilla + saucetop 33% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together609 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).