Why it works: Caraway and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,409 recipes. Both carry 1-penten-3-one, which smells fish, pungent. The science ↓
Caraway Cookies
Ingredients
Directions
Moisten the caraway seeds with hot water.
Once the water is absorbed, add the caraway seeds to the Sugar Cookies No. III mixture.
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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Caraway + sugartop 21% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together1,409 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).
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