Name: Game Sandwiches
Ingredients: 1 lb cold cooked game; ½ cup thick game gravy; 1 oz ham; pepper to taste; salt to taste

Why it works: Ham and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 23% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,058 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Game Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Mince the cold cooked game and ham very finely.
Mix the minced game and ham with the thick game gravy, pepper, and salt.
Form the mixture into sandwiches.

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.

Ham + peppertop 23% of all pairs

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Cooked together6,058 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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What each ingredient does

Cold cooked game: Provides the main meaty filling, bound together by the gravy.
Thick game gravy: Adds moisture and binds the minced filling so it holds its shape.
Ham: Adds a salty, savoury flavour that complements the game.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.