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Oatmeal Crackers

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Oats and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,548 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Oatmeal Crackers

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix the water, salt, sugar, and nut meal together.

  2. Knead in as much oatmeal as possible.

  3. Optionally, use one-third white flour and two-thirds oatmeal.

  4. You can use any nut meal, such as peanut, almond, pine nut, or Brazil nut.

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. Oats + sugartop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,548 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

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

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