Name: Cauliflower Fritters
Ingredients: 1 cooked cauliflower; frying batter; boiling fat; grated Parmesan cheese; coralline pepper

Why it works: Cauliflower and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,113 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Cauliflower Fritters

Ingredients

Directions

Break the cooked cauliflower into neat pieces.
Dip the pieces in frying batter until well covered.
Fry in boiling fat until golden brown.
Drain well and sprinkle with grated Parmesan cheese and coralline pepper.
Serve immediately on a napkin.

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.

Cauliflower + peppertop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,113 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Parmesan cheese + peppertop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together5,322 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).
Cauliflower + parmesan cheesetop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together138 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).