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Zesty Orange, Seed and Milk Chocolate Biscuits Recipe

These tasty biscuits are easy to make and perfect for when your little ones want to get into the kitchen.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and chocolate are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 9,121 recipes mention both. Both carry gamma-nonanolactone, which smells coconut, sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

10 people
Prep30 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By lovefood. 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. Milk + chocolatetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together9,121 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  2. Butter + milktop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together81,222 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Poppy seed + sesametop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together106 recipes

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

  4. Butter + poppy seedtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together257 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanol (resin, flower).

  5. Sesame + chocolatetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together43 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the sesame

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, sugar, orange, poppy seed, flour, milk, chocolate):

  1. Almondbetter flavor fit
  2. Pecansbetter flavor fit
  3. Walnutbetter flavor fit
  4. Sesamethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, sugar, orange, poppy seed, flour, milk, chocolate. 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).