Name: Breakfast and Tea Cakes
Ingredients: 37 tablespoons butter or olive oil; peaches; powdered sugar

Why it works: Butter and peach work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 860 recipes. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓

Breakfast and Tea Cakes

Ingredients

37 tablespoons butter or olive oil
peaches
powdered sugar

Directions

Heat the butter or olive oil in a frying pan.
Peel and halve the peaches.
Dip the peach halves in the batter.
Fry the peaches in the hot fat until golden brown.
Serve on a warm dish and sprinkle with powdered sugar.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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.

Butter + peachtop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together860 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).
Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together98,233 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
Peach + sugartop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,308 recipes

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