Why it works: Banana and bread work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 67 recipes. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity, apple peel. The science ↓
Banana and Bread-fruit Flours
Ingredients
Directions
Peel the unripe banana and cut it into round slices.
Dry the banana slices until completely dehydrated.
Powder the dried banana slices and sift them to obtain flour.
For bread-fruit flour, take the unripe bread-fruit, dry it, and then powder and sift it.
Use the banana flour in porridge, damper, or cake.
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.
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Banana + breadtop 17% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together67 recipes
Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).
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