Name: Cheese Cones
Ingredients: 2 cups all-purpose flour; 1 cup grated cheese; ½ cup whipped cream; ½ cup grated cheese (for topping); Krona pepper seasoning (to taste)

Why it works: Cheese and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,655 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Cheese Cones

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup grated cheese
½ cup whipped cream
½ cup grated cheese (for topping)
Krona pepper seasoning (to taste)

Directions

The book says “a hot oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare the dough

Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).
In a bowl, mix the flour and grated cheese to prepare a short crust paste.
Roll out the dough.
Cut the rolled dough into oblongs or squares.

Bake and finish

Bake in the preheated oven until golden.
Let the baked pieces cool.
Spread the top of each piece with a mixture of whipped cream and grated cheese.
Season the tops with Krona pepper.
Decorate the tops tastefully before serving.

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.

Explore the science

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 + creamtop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,655 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Cheese + peppertop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together7,861 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Flour + peppertop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together50,459 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Flour + creamtop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together30,481 recipes

Shared aroma: acetaldehyde (pungent, ethereal).
Cream + peppertop 23% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together21,449 recipes

Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

Cream and pepper barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 21,449 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

What each ingredient does

All-purpose flour: Forms the structure of the short crust paste once rolled and baked.
Grated cheese: Adds savoury flavour and richness to the dough and the topping.
Whipped cream: Adds fat and moisture to the cheese topping, giving it a soft, creamy texture.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.