Croatian Bribirski Prisnats

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.

1. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together7,962 recipes

   Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

2. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together68,474 recipes

   Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

3. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
   Smell alikelow
   Cooked together124,287 recipes

   Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

4. Onion + buttertop 15% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together42,912 recipes

   Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

5. Ham + cheesetop 15% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together303 recipes

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

Butter and flour 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

What each ingredient does

Eggs

Set the batter into a firm, sliceable structure as they cook.

Yeast

Produces gas during rising, giving the cake a lighter, airier crumb.

Jack cheese

Melts into the cake, adding richness and moisture to the crumb.

Butter

Adds fat and flavor when frying the bacon and carries it into the batter.

Flour

Forms the gluten and starch network that gives the batter its body.

Bacon

Renders fat and adds savory, smoky flavor throughout the cake.

The step that matters

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (ham, cheese, egg, butter, pepper, flour):

1. Mustardfits better
2. Asparagusfits better
3. Capsicumfits better
4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against ham, cheese, egg, butter, pepper, flour. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.