Name: Orange Flower Puff
Ingredients: 1/2 pint of milk; 2 tablespoonfuls of orange water; 3 eggs; 4 ozs

Why it works: Milk and orange are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,696 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Orange Flower Puff

Ingredients

1/2 pint of milk
2 tablespoonfuls of orange water
3 eggs
4 ozs

Directions

Make the batter

Combine 1/2 pint of milk, 3 eggs, 4 ozs of Allinson fine wheatmeal, and 2 tablespoonfuls of orange water; add some butter or oil for frying.
Beat the eggs well, then mix with the milk and wheatmeal to form a batter; add the orange water.

Cook and serve

Fry the batter into thin pancakes.
Dust the pancakes with castor sugar.
Serve.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

289Calories

16 gProtein

14 gFat

28 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
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Orange	1 medium (131g)	62
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 T. R. Allinson. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

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 + orangetop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,696 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together88,785 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Orange + eggtop 31% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together10,696 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

Orange and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 10,696 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: Bind the batter and help set the thin pancakes as they cook.
Allinson fine wheatmeal (in the method): Provides the flour structure that holds the batter together when fried.
Milk: Adds moisture and liquid so the batter spreads into thin pancakes.