Name: Whole Wheat Dutch Baby with Maple-Pecan Strawberries
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 20 min
Yield: 2-4
Ingredients: 2 eggs eggs; 2 tablespoons maple syrup; ½ cup 2% milk; ½ cup + 2 tablespoons whole wheat pastry flour; ⅛ teaspoon salt; 1 tablespoons butter; 3 cups strawberries, quartered; 2 tablespoons maple syrup; ¼ cup pecan pieces; Greek Yogurt to finish

Why it works: Milk and wheat are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,418 recipes. Both carry (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, melon. 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.

Milk + wheattop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,418 recipes

Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).
Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together81,283 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Wheat + flourtop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,373 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together124,287 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Butter + yogurttop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,333 recipes

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

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 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

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Yogurt	170g plain Greek	100
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Maple Syrup	1 tbsp (20ml)	52
Strawberry	1 cup (152g)	49
Pecan	1 half (4g)	20
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Wheat	not in our table	0
Pastry	not in our table	0

Whole Wheat Dutch Baby with Maple-Pecan Strawberries