Name: Bouchees a LA Reine
Ingredients: ½ pound minced chicken; 2 ounces ham, minced; 6 minced mushrooms; truffle, minced; ½ cup cream; 2 egg yolks; puff pastry for caisses

Why it works: Chicken and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 4,172 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-butyl acetate, which smells fruity, banana. The science ↓

Bouchees a LA Reine

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).
Make small cases from puff pastry or line little molds with the pastry.
In a saucepan, heat a white sauce.
Add the minced chicken, ham, mushrooms, and truffle to the sauce.
Once hot, stir in the cream and then the egg yolks.
Fill the pastry cases with the mixture and serve.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

Chicken + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together4,172 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).
Mushroom + truffletop 4% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together1,900 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Ham + truffletop 12% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together516 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Chicken + truffletop 13% of all pairs

Aroma overlaplow

Mentioned together756 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Chicken + hamtop 14% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together1,497 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).