Name: Tea Biscuit Sandwich
Ingredients: baking powder biscuit dough; snappy cheese; butter

Why it works: Cheese and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,962 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Tea Biscuit Sandwich

Ingredients

baking powder biscuit dough
snappy cheese
butter

Directions

Cut the baking powder biscuit dough with a small cutter.
Bake the biscuits just before serving.
Spread snappy cheese on one half of a biscuit.
Spread a little butter on the other half of the biscuit.
Put the halves together and serve immediately.

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.

Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together7,962 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Biscuit + cheesetop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together252 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Biscuit + buttertop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,009 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).