Why it works: Wheat and coconut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 188 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓
Graham Pie Crust
Ingredients
Directions
Pour boiling water into wheat-meal and stir to form a soft dough.
Roll out the dough as thin as possible.
Sprinkle a little wheat-meal over the pie plate and spread it as the bottom crust.
For the top crust, mix wheat-meal with ice-cold water and add grated coconut if desired.
Knead quickly to form a stiff dough and roll it out very thin.
Cover the pie and bake immediately.
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.
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Wheat + coconuttop 9% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together188 recipes
Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
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