Name: Buckwheat Cakes with Baking Powder
Ingredients: 3 pounds buckwheat flour; 3 tablespoons baking powder; 3 pints lukewarm water; 2 tablespoons coarse sea salt

Why it works: Buckwheat and flour work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 660 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Buckwheat Cakes with Baking Powder

Ingredients

3 pounds buckwheat flour
3 tablespoons baking powder
3 pints lukewarm water
2 tablespoons coarse sea salt

Directions

In a pan, combine buckwheat flour and baking powder.
Make a well in the center and pour in lukewarm water and salt.
Mix to form a light batter.
Let the batter rest for 10 minutes before baking.
If the cakes are not light enough, add more baking powder.

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.

Buckwheat + flourtop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together660 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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Buckwheat Cakes with Baking Powder