Name: Chocolate Mould
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons grated chocolate; 1 cup milk; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Why it works: Milk and vanilla are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 19,187 recipes. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity, apple peel. The science ↓

Chocolate Mould

Ingredients

2 tablespoons grated chocolate
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

In a saucepan, combine the milk and grated chocolate.
Heat the mixture over medium heat until it begins to boil.
Remove from heat and stir in the vanilla extract.

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 + vanillatop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together19,187 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).
Chocolate + vanillatop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together10,020 recipes

Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).
Chocolate + milktop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together9,128 recipes

Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

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What each ingredient does

Grated chocolate: Melts into the milk to provide the chocolate flavour and a richer, thicker body.
Milk: Forms the liquid base that carries the chocolate and gives the drink its creamy texture.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.