Why it works: Wheat and buckwheat 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 ↓
Protecting Cabbage From Worms
Ingredients
Directions
Mix wheat bran and buckwheat flour together.
Sprinkle the mixture dry over the cabbage.
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.
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Wheat + buckwheattop 2% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together113 recipes
Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
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Buckwheat + flourtop 4% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together660 recipes
Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
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Buckwheat + cabbagetop 10% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together7 recipes
Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
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Wheat + flourtop 12% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together4,373 recipes
Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
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Wheat + cabbagetop 15% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together31 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-octenal (fatty, green).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Swap the cabbage
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (wheat, buckwheat, flour):
- Beetrootfits better
- Arrowrootfits better
- Chivefits better
- Cabbagethe original
Fit is the average pairing score against wheat, buckwheat, flour. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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