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Kentucky Lace Cakes

"These cornmeal pancakes are one of Papa's favorite recipes and really good with chili or beans, etc. Enjoy!"

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Kentucky Lace Cakes

Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 81,283 recipes mention both. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Kentucky Lace Cakes

8 servings
Prep10 min
Cook5 min

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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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together88,785 recipes

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

  4. Vinegar + buttertop 23% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together13,513 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  5. Milk + vinegartop 28% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,949 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

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