Name: Waffles, Cakes, Etc
Ingredients: enough grease to coat the griddle; 1 teaspoon brown sugar; soaked bread crumbs, mashed fine (optional); cold rice soaked in milk until soft (optional)

Why it works: Rice and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,374 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Waffles, Cakes, Etc

Ingredients

enough grease to coat the griddle
1 teaspoon brown sugar
soaked bread crumbs, mashed fine (optional)
cold rice soaked in milk until soft (optional)

Directions

Preheat the griddle or waffle iron until hot.
Lightly grease the surface to prevent sticking.
Pour batter onto the griddle and cook until the edges are full of bubbles.
Turn the cakes over and cook until golden brown.
For added tenderness, mix in soaked bread crumbs or cold rice soaked in milk.

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.

Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together7,374 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,466 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
Bread + ricetop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,259 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).
Sugar + milktop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together77,875 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Sugar + ricetop 26% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together8,744 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Sugar and milk barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 77,875 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

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