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Carrots, with Macaroni and Spinach

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 35% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,481 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Carrots, with Macaroni and Spinach

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the carrots until tender.

  2. Arrange the carrots upright around a mound of boiled spinach in the center of a serving dish.

  3. Place the macaroni in small heaps around the carrots.

  4. Cut the hard-boiled eggs into quarters and distribute them around the spinach and macaroni.

  5. Pour the sauce from the carrots over the macaroni and eggs, and serve as a separate course.

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.

  1. Carrot + eggtop 35% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,481 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

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