Why it works: Currant and caraway work together. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 232 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓
Currant Buns
Ingredients
Directions
The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.
Prepare
Prepare the dough for the buns.
Add the cleaned currants to the dough and mix well.
Alternatively, add caraway seeds instead of currants, or use both.
Shape and bake
Shape the dough into buns and place them on a baking sheet.
Bake in a moderate oven at 350°F (175°C) until golden brown.
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.
Explore the science
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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Currant + carawaytop 18% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together232 recipes
Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Currants
- Add sweetness and chewy pockets of fruit throughout the dough.
- Caraway seeds
- Add a warm, aromatic flavour to the dough.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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