Name: Blinis Au Parmesan
Ingredients: Blinis batter; ½ cup grated Parmesan cheese; Sour cream, for serving; Melted butter, for serving

Why it works: Cream and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Blinis Au Parmesan

Ingredients

Blinis batter
½ cup grated Parmesan cheese
Sour cream, for serving
Melted butter, for serving

Directions

Prepare the blinis batter as usual.
When cooking the blinis, sprinkle a little grated Parmesan cheese on top just before placing the batter in the small pans.
Serve with a side of sour cream and melted butter.

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.

Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together41,516 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Parmesan cheese + buttertop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,163 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
Parmesan cheese + creamtop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,566 recipes

Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).