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Plain Wheat Dish

A simple wheat dish made with soaked wheat, egg, cream, and optional raisins or almonds.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Raisin and almond are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,781 recipes. Both carry 2-nonanone, which smells fruity, floral. The science ↓

Plain Wheat Dish

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a bowl, combine the soaked wheat with the beaten egg and cream, and mix well to combine all ingredients.

  2. For added flavor, soak a few raisins with the wheat or mix in ground blanched almonds.

  3. Serve warm or cold as desired.

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. Raisin + almondtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,781 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  2. Wheat + almondtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together264 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Wheat + raisintop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together163 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Cream + almondtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,130 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

  5. Wheat + eggtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,225 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Coarsely ground wheat
Forms the bulk of the porridge and provides its hearty, starchy body.
Egg
Binds the mixture and helps it set and hold together as it thickens.
Cream
Adds richness and moisture, giving a softer, smoother texture.

Swap the raisin

The recipe marks raisin as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (wheat, egg, cream, almond):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against wheat, egg, cream, almond. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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