Name: Raised Biscuits
Ingredients: dough for white, graham, or graham fruit bread; milk; beaten egg white (optional)

Why it works: Bread and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,466 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Raised Biscuits

Oven, in the book's wordsA rather quick oven

Ingredients

dough for white, graham, or graham fruit bread
milk
beaten egg white (optional)

Directions

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

Prepare dough using milk for better flavor.
Knead the dough thoroughly and divide it into small, equal portions.
Shape each portion into smooth, round biscuits.
Place the biscuits closely in a shallow baking pan and let them rise until lighter than bread.
Bake in a preheated oven at 400°F (200°C).
Optionally, brush the tops with beaten egg white just before removing from the oven.

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.

Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,466 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together22,662 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together88,785 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).