Name: Daily Bread
Ingredients: 1 cup whole wheat flour; ½ cup raw peanuts; ¼ cup pitted dried prunes

Why it works: Wheat and peanut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 151 recipes. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓

Daily Bread

Ingredients

1 cup whole wheat flour
½ cup raw peanuts
¼ cup pitted dried prunes

Directions

Prepare

Coarsely grind the whole wheat flour.
Grind the raw peanuts.
Grind the pitted dried prunes.

Combine and serve

Cream the peanuts with the flour.
Cream the prunes with the flour.
Mix everything together.
Serve dry.

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.

Explore the science

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.

Wheat + peanuttop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together151 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).
Wheat + flourtop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,373 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Flour + peanuttop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,427 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Whole wheat flour: Provides the bulk and structure of the dish, with a mildly nutty, earthy body.
Raw peanuts: Add fat and a rich, nutty flavor that carries through the mix.
Pitted dried prunes: Add natural sweetness and a soft, moist texture.