Why it works: Cottonseed and corn work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓
Cottonseed Cakes or Bread
Ingredients
Directions
Mix one part cottonseed meal or flour with four parts corn meal or wheat flour.
Use the same recipes commonly used for wheat and corn bread and cakes.
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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Cottonseed + corntop 14% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together7 recipes
Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
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