Sugar Gingerbread

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. Milk + flourtop 14% of all pairs
   Smell alikelow
   Cooked together78,219 recipes

   Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

2. Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together92,116 recipes

   Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

3. Ginger + flourtop 15% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together8,564 recipes

   Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

4. Sugar + gingertop 17% of all pairs
   Smell alikelow
   Cooked together14,054 recipes

   Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

5. Sugar + milktop 18% of all pairs
   Smell alikelow
   Cooked together77,875 recipes

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

Milk and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 78,219 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, milk, flour):

1. Cinnamonfits better
2. Jalapenofits better
3. Nutmegfits better
4. Gingerthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, milk, flour. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.