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Rye Bread Layer Cake

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Why it works: Rye and bread work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 59 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

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12–16

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

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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. Rye + breadtop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together59 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  2. Sunflower + potatotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together303 recipes

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

  3. Rye + flourtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,310 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Bread + eggtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together22,584 recipes

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

  5. Cocoa powder + flourtop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,177 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rye, bread, sunflower, egg, sugar, cocoa powder, flour):

  1. Beetrootbetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Sweet potatoabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rye, bread, sunflower, egg, sugar, cocoa powder, flour. 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).