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Golly Gee Gluten-Free Pancakes

"A trip to the health food store will be necessary for these flapjacks, but it is worth it. While there, pick up some real maple syrup to serve with them!"

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Why it works: Amaranth and arrowroot share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 2 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

9 Pancakes
Prep10 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Amaranth + arrowroottop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Cinnamon + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together11,917 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Amaranth + flourtop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together22 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Flour + arrowroottop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together499 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Apple + cinnamontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,586 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Flavor stand-ins for the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, butter, amaranth, flour, arrowroot, cinnamon, nutmeg):

  1. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  2. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  3. Raisinbetter flavor fit
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, butter, amaranth, flour, arrowroot, cinnamon, nutmeg. 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).