Name: Graham Fruit Crackers
Ingredients: 1 cup sweet cream; 1 cup currants, cleansed and well dried; 1 teaspoon baking soda; ½ teaspoon cream of tartar; 1 cup sifted Graham flour; 1 cup white flour

Why it works: Cream and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 30,481 recipes. Both carry acetaldehyde, which smells pungent, ethereal. The science ↓

Graham Fruit Crackers

Ingredients

Directions

In a bowl, combine the Graham flour and white flour.
Sift the cream of tartar into the flour mixture 2 or 3 times.
Dissolve the baking soda in 1 teaspoon of hot water and add to the mixture.
Stir in the sweet cream and currants until well combined.

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.

Cream + flourtop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together30,481 recipes

Shared aroma: acetaldehyde (pungent, ethereal).
Currant + flourtop 26% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together8,077 recipes
Cream + curranttop 32% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,829 recipes