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Crystal Wheat

A porridge made from crystal wheat, cooked in boiling water and served with cream, fruit juices, stewed fruits, or lentil dressing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Wheat and cream work together. They rank in the top 24% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 681 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Crystal Wheat

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a double boiler, add 1 pint of boiling water.

  2. Sprinkle in 1 pint of crystal wheat and stir until thickened.

  3. Place the inner cup in the outer boiler with boiling water.

  4. Cook for 30 minutes or longer.

  5. Serve with cream, fruit juices, stewed fruits, or lentil dressing.

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.

  1. Wheat + creamtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together681 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Crystal wheat
Forms the bulk of the porridge, thickening as its starch absorbs water and swells.

“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.

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