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Mock Buckwheat Cakes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Why it works: Milk and corn are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,955 recipes. Both carry hexanal, which smells green, grassy. The science ↓

Mock Buckwheat Cakes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Warm the skimmed milk to the temperature of fresh milk.

  2. Stir in the salt and yeast until dissolved.

  3. Gradually add graham meal until the mixture thickens to the consistency of buckwheat cakes.

  4. Mix in the corn meal thoroughly.

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. Milk + corntop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,955 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

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

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