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French Baguettes

Golden, warm and crusty baguettes. Perfect for making sandwiches or croutons or slicing and slathering with butter.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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French Baguettes

Why it works: Bread and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and 22,662 recipes mention both. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

French Baguettes

Serves 4
Prep1 hr 40 min
Cook25 min

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By tastykitchen. 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. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  2. Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  3. Flour + eggtop 15% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together122,807 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Bread + flourtop 25% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together10,383 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and egg share little aroma chemistry, yet 106,462 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