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Cocoanut Pittas

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cardamom and rice match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 554 recipes. Both carry 2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Cocoanut Pittas

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Recipe from a historical cookbook.

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.

  1. Cardamom + ricetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together554 recipes

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

  2. Cardamom + flourtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together643 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Rice + flourtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the cardamom

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, flour):

  1. Turmericfits better
  2. Jalapenofits better
  3. Cinnamonfits about as well
  4. Cardamomthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, flour. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.