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Curried Pigeons

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and banana work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 228 recipes. Both carry 2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Curried Pigeons

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cook the pigeons as directed.

  2. Dish the pigeons and add 2 teaspoons of curry powder to the gravy.

  3. Boil the gravy for one minute before pouring it over the birds.

  4. Serve with boiled rice and ice-cold bananas.

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. Rice + bananatop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together228 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

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