Why it works: Banana and wheat work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 127 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓
Rolled Wheat
Ingredients
Directions
Slice the bananas finely.
Mix the sliced bananas with the rolled wheat.
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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Banana + wheattop 12% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together127 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
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