Name: Gluten-Free Tuesday: Cheddar Biscuits
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 50 min
Yield: makes about ten biscuits
Ingredients: 6 ounces (1 1/2 cups) white rice flour; 2.5 ounces (1/2 cup) sweet rice flour; 2 ounces (1/2 cup) tapioca starch; 1 tablespoon baking powder; 1 teaspoon salt; 1/4 teaspoon xanthan gum; 6 tablespoons solid vegetable shortening; 4 tablespoons butter; 3/4 cup milk; 2 ounces (1 cup) grated Cheddar cheese

Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

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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.

Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together81,283 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together7,374 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Butter + cheddar cheesetop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,436 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Milk + cheddar cheesetop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,964 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together124,287 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 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

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Rice	1 cup cooked (158g) white	206
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Vegetable	1 tbsp (14g)	120
Cheddar Cheese	1 oz (28g)	113
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

Gluten-Free Tuesday: Cheddar Biscuits