Name: Flaked Oats or Flaked Wheat
Ingredients: flaked oats or flaked wheat; warm water; salt (optional); cream (for serving); strained honey (for serving); ground nuts (for serving)

Why it works: Oats and honey work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 634 recipes. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

Flaked Oats or Flaked Wheat

Ingredients

Directions

Place enough flaked oats or flaked wheat in a deep vessel for several days' supply.
Add warm water to just cover the oats or wheat.
Let it stand for a few hours, then stir well to moisten the top portion.
Serve with cream, strained honey, ground nuts, or a combination of these.

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.

Oats + honeytop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together634 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
Oats + nutstop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together119 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
Honey + nutstop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together68 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Cream + nutstop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together886 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).
Oats + creamtop 28% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together634 recipes

Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).