Why it works: Sauce and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and 15,299 recipes mention both. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓
Mulligatawny Soup
Ingredients
Directions
In a pot, heat the clarified soup stock.
Season with curry powder or Worcestershire sauce, coarse sea salt, and black pepper.
Cook the macaroni in boiling water for 20 minutes, then drain.
Add the drained macaroni to the soup and stir.
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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.
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Sauce + peppertop 17% of all pairsAroma overlaplowMentioned together15,299 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Sauce and pepper share little aroma chemistry, yet 15,299 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
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