Why it works: Corn and apple work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 330 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓
Corn Cake
Ingredients
Directions
Pour 1 quart of boiling water over 1 quart of corn meal and stir quickly.
Wet your hands and form the dough into small round cakes, each about ½ inch thick.
For added flavor, incorporate a few raspberries, huckleberries, or chopped sweet apples.
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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Corn + appletop 15% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together330 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
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