Name: One of Everything
Yield: 4 dozen
Ingredients: 1 cup white sugar; 1 cup packed brown sugar; 1 cup vegetable oil; 1 cup butter; 1 egg; 3 1/2 cups sifted all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon baking soda; 1 teaspoon salt; 1 teaspoon cream of tartar; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 1 cup crisp rice cereal; 1 cup flaked coconut; 1 cup rolled oats; 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips

Why it works: Vanilla and coconut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,294 recipes. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity, apple peel. The science ↓

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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.

Vanilla + coconuttop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,294 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).
Rice + coconuttop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,063 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together41,516 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together35,032 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together43,450 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

Sugar and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the coconut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, butter, egg, flour, cream, vanilla, rice):

Coconutthe original
Raisinabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, butter, egg, flour, cream, vanilla, rice. 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).

One of Everything