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Tagliarini with Gravy

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Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Tagliarini with Gravy

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a roast pot, heat butter and olive oil until hot.

  2. Add pieces of roast beef and brown well.

  3. Pour in white wine and cook for a while.

  4. Add chopped onion, garlic, and soaked mushrooms.

  5. Add chopped tomatoes, salt, and pepper; cook slowly for at least 2 hours, adding broth as needed.

  6. In a soup pot, fill halfway with boiling water and add a pinch of salt.

  7. Drop in noodles little by little, stirring carefully; boil for 5 minutes.

  8. Strain noodles and place in a flat dish.

  9. Layer with gravy and grated Parmesan cheese, then repeat with another layer of noodles, gravy, and cheese.

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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,539 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Garlic + tomatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Beef + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (white wine, butter, olive, beef, garlic, mushroom, tomato):

  1. Onionthe original
  2. Potatofits about as well
  3. Capsicumfits about as well
  4. Chivefits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against white wine, butter, olive, beef, garlic, mushroom, tomato. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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