Name: Time Table for Cereals
Ingredients: hulled wheat; large hominy; rolled oats; cream of wheat; hominy grits

Why it works: Wheat and oats work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 473 recipes. Both carry 2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Time Table for Cereals

Ingredients

Directions

Soak hulled wheat for 6 to 8 hours, then cook in a tireless cooker for 20 minutes.
Soak large hominy overnight, then cook slowly all day or in a tireless cooker for about 30 minutes.
Cook rolled oats for about 10 minutes, then place in a tireless cooker overnight or cook for 2 to 3 hours in a double boiler.
Cook cream of wheat for 30 minutes.
Soak hominy grits for about 4 hours, then cook for 15 minutes and place in a tireless cooker overnight.

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.

Wheat + oatstop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together473 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-octenal (fatty, green).
Wheat + creamtop 24% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together681 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Oats + creamtop 28% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together634 recipes

Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).