Name: Strawberries & Cream Scone Recipe for Mother’s Day {Healthy}
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 18 min
Yield: Serves 12
Ingredients: 1 1/3 cups old-fashioned oats (for 1 cup oat flour); 1 cup all-purpose flour; 3 tbsp granulated sugar; 1 1/2 tsp baking powder; 1 tsp ground ginger; 1/2 tsp salt; 5 tbsp cold unsalted butter, cut into small pieces; 1/2 cup + 2 tsp non-fat milk; 1/2 tsp vanilla extract; 1 egg white; 1/2 cup roughly chopped strawberries; 3/4 tsp turbinado sugar (such as Sugar in the Raw)

Why it works: Milk and vanilla are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 19,187 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.

Milk + vanillatop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together19,187 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).
Oats + vanillatop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,532 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together81,283 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together35,032 recipes

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

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together309 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

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

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

Cinnamonfits better
Nutmegfits better
Gingerthe original
Clovefits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against oats, flour, sugar, butter, milk, vanilla, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Oat	1/2 cup dry (40g)	154
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Strawberry	1 cup (152g)	49
Vanilla	1 tsp extract (4ml)	12
Ginger	1 tsp grated fresh (2g)	2
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

Strawberries & Cream Scone Recipe for Mother’s Day {Healthy}