Name: Pee Bonito or Tunny Fish Ala Godivier
Ingredients: Bonito or tunny fish; butter; champagne; chicken forcemeat

Why it works: Butter and chicken are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 13,902 recipes. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓

Pee Bonito or Tunny Fish Ala Godivier

Ingredients

Bonito or tunny fish
butter
champagne
chicken forcemeat

Directions

Prepare the bonito or tunny fish by cleaning and filleting it.
Melt butter in a pan and add the fish fillets.
Cook the fish until it is tender.
Add champagne to the pan and simmer for a few minutes.
Fill the fish with chicken forcemeat and bake until cooked through.

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.

Butter + chickentop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together13,902 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).
Butter + champagnetop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together209 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
Bonito + chickentop 28% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together6 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Champagne + chickentop 30% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together57 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).
Bonito + buttertop 31% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).