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Biscuit Mix

Use this base in any recipe calling for Bisquick or biscuit mix.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and biscuit match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 871 recipes mention both. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 36
Prep10 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Flour + biscuittop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together871 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Sugar + creamtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together43,437 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + biscuittop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,873 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  4. Cream + biscuittop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,234 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetaldehyde (pungent, ethereal).

  5. Flour + sugartop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together89,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

Flour and sugar share little aroma chemistry, yet 89,462 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