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Poppy Onion Biscuits

"A recipe that has been in our family for years."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and poppy seed work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 214 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

24 small rolls
Prep15 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

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

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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. Onion + poppy seedtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together214 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Onion + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together68,463 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Egg + flourtop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together104,138 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Egg + poppy seedtop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together283 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Sugar + flourtop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together89,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

Egg and flour share little aroma chemistry, yet 104,138 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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