Name: Cheese Biscuits
Ingredients: Baking powder biscuit dough; Milk for brushing; Grated cheese

Why it works: Milk and cheese are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,426 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Cheese Biscuits

Ingredients

Baking powder biscuit dough
Milk for brushing
Grated cheese

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare a dough for baking powder biscuits.
Roll out the dough to ½ inch thickness and cut into small rounds.
Brush the rounds lightly with milk and sprinkle with a thin layer of grated cheese.
Stack the rounds in threes, one on top of the other.
Bake in a hot oven at 400°F (200°C) for 12 to 15 minutes.

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.

Milk + cheesetop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,426 recipes

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

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together252 recipes

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

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,332 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).