Name: Buckwheat Cakes
Ingredients: one quart of buckwheat; one half pints of skimmed milk; one tea-spoonful of salt; one egg iu the batter

Why it works: Milk and tea work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 738 recipes. Both carry 4-heptenal, which smells creamy, biscuit. The science ↓

Buckwheat Cakes

Ingredients

one quart of buckwheat
one half pints of skimmed milk
one tea-spoonful of salt
one egg iu the batter

Directions

One quart of buckwheat, one and one half pints of skimmed milk, a tea-cupful of good yeast, one tea-spoonful of salt ; mix this well together, and stir in a table-spoonful of melted lard ; make this at night for breakfast. Break one egg iu the batter and beat well. — Mrs. L. P.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

227Calories

14 gProtein

13 gFat

13 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 4 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Skimmed Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Buckwheat	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Vehling, Joseph Dommers, 1879-1950. fmo. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.

Explore the science

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.

Milk + teatop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together738 recipes

Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).
Buckwheat + teatop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together13 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).
Buckwheat + milktop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together328 recipes

Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, creamy).
Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together88,785 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Buckwheat + eggtop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together224 recipes

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