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Elephant Ears

"Crispy cinnamon-sugar fried bread confections!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Elephant Ears

Why it works: Flour and cinnamon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 17,341 recipes mention both. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Elephant Ears

15 ears
Prep15 min
Cook7 min

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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. Flour + cinnamontop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together17,341 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Milk + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together12,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  3. Sugar + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together30,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Milk + flourtop 14% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

Sugar and cinnamon share little aroma chemistry, yet 30,779 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