Name: Raised Buckwheat Pancakes
Ingredients: 4 cups buckwheat flour; 1 cup wheat flour; 1 teaspoon salt; warm water; ½ to ¾ cake of yeast; ½ teaspoon baking soda; milk

Why it works: Buckwheat and wheat match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 113 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Raised Buckwheat Pancakes

Ingredients

Directions

In a bowl, combine buckwheat flour, wheat flour, and salt.
Make a batter with warm water and dissolve the yeast in it.
Mix the yeast batter with the flour mixture and set it to rise overnight.
In the morning, stir in baking soda mixed with milk to achieve the desired thickness.

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.

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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 + wheattop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together113 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
Buckwheat + flourtop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together660 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Wheat + milktop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,418 recipes

Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).
Flour + wheattop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,373 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Buckwheat + milktop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together328 recipes

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