Name: Buckwheat Cakes
Ingredients: one half pints buckwheat flour; one half pint of corn- meal; one quart of water; a pinch of salt; one tea-cupful yeast; one egg; seven o'clock p; ten o'clock; salt

Why it works: Buckwheat and flour work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 660 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Buckwheat Cakes

Ingredients

Directions

One and one half pints buckwheat flour, one half pint of corn- meal, one quart of water, lard size of a hickory nut, half a tea- spoonful of soda, table-spoonful sugar, one tea-cupful yeast, a pinch of salt, and one egg. In cold weather mix with warm water, if the weather is mild use cold water. If wanted for breakfast, make about seven o'clock p. m.; if for tea, about ten o'clock. If on trying the batter it is sour, add a little soda. — Mrs. Martin.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

533Calories

19 gProtein

6 gFat

96 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 5 ingredients. The other 2 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
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Buckwheat	not in our table	0
Water	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.

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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.

Buckwheat + flourtop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together660 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Buckwheat + corntop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together67 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
Corn + teatop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together89 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
Buckwheat + teatop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together13 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).
Flour + corntop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together6,165 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).