Name: Chocolate Wafkks
Ingredients: ¼ pound best Tazilla chocolate, grated; ¼ pound confectioner's sugar; ¼ pound grated almonds (a few bitter ones mixed); 6 egg whites, stiffly beaten

Why it works: Chocolate and almond are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,733 recipes. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Chocolate Wafkks

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

¼ pound best Tazilla chocolate, grated
¼ pound confectioner's sugar
¼ pound grated almonds (a few bitter ones mixed)
6 egg whites, stiffly beaten

Directions

In a bowl, stir together the confectioner's sugar and beaten egg whites.
Add the grated chocolate and almonds, mixing well.
Drop spoonfuls of the mixture onto waxed paper, spacing them about 2 inches apart.

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.

Chocolate + almondtop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,733 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).
Chocolate + sugartop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together15,404 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
Sugar + almondtop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together15,679 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).
Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together122,807 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Chocolate + eggtop 24% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,448 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).