Name: Rolled Oats Bread
Ingredients: 2 cups scalded milk; 2 cups rolled oats; 2 tablespoons molasses

Why it works: Milk and oats are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,119 recipes. Both carry 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine, which smells cocoa, roasted. The science ↓

Rolled Oats Bread

Ingredients

2 cups scalded milk
2 cups rolled oats
2 tablespoons molasses

Directions

Pour scalded milk over rolled oats.
Add molasses and mix well.

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.

Milk + oatstop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,119 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).
Milk + molassestop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together7,243 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Oats + molassestop 31% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together260 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).