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Wheat Germ Scones with Dried Fruit and Nuts

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Wheat and cardamom share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 58 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 8 scones

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat, tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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By epicurious. 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. Wheat + cardamomtop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together58 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-octenal (fatty, green).

  2. Cardamom + gingertop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,114 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Vanilla + sugartop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together35,031 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Vanilla + honeytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,262 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Honey + wheattop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together346 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

Vanilla and sugar share little aroma chemistry, yet 35,031 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

Flavor stand-ins for the vanilla

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (buttermilk, flour, honey, wheat, sugar, cardamom, ginger):

  1. Figabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Lemonabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Blueberryabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Vanillathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against buttermilk, flour, honey, wheat, sugar, cardamom, ginger. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).