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Easiest Focaccia Recipe

"Extremely easy, fast and cheap. Great for sandwiches and snacks. You may use more or less olive oil or salt if you wish."

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Easiest Focaccia Recipe

Why it works: Sugar and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and 92,116 recipes mention both. Both carry phenylacetaldehyde, which smells hawthorne, honey. The science ↓

Easiest Focaccia Recipe

2 to 4 servings
Prep30 min
Cook20 min

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By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  2. Flour + olivetop 19% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together16,871 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Sugar + olivetop 35% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together12,483 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

Sugar and olive share little aroma chemistry, yet 12,483 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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