Name: Veal or Lamb Potpie
Ingredients: Veal or lamb; Gravy; Onion; Biscuit crust

Why it works: Onion and biscuit work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 428 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Veal or Lamb Potpie

Ingredients

Veal or lamb
Gravy
Onion
Biscuit crust

Directions

Prepare the veal or lamb by cutting it into pieces.
Cook the meat with gravy and chopped onion until tender.
Place the mixture in a baking dish.
Cover with biscuit crust and bake until golden brown.
Serve hot.

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.

Explore the science

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.

Onion + biscuittop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together428 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Veal + oniontop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together6,841 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Veal + biscuittop 29% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together113 recipes

Shared aroma: maltol (caramel, sweet).