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Baby Buttermilk Biscuit Pizzas

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Buttermilk and tomato work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and 130 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

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

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By epicurious. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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. Buttermilk + tomatotop 16% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together130 recipes

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

  2. Tomato + oreganotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,767 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  3. Tomato + parmesan cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,490 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Buttermilk + saucetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together129 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Buttermilk + biscuittop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together110 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the oregano

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (buttermilk, biscuit, tomato, sauce, parmesan cheese):

  1. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  2. Capersbetter flavor fit
  3. Celerybetter flavor fit
  4. Oreganothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against buttermilk, biscuit, tomato, sauce, parmesan cheese. 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).