Why it works: Egg and biscuit are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 27% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,643 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓
Sponge Cake
Ingredients
Directions
Poach the eggs and remove them from the water.
Slice the sponge cake nicely with a knife.
Arrange the poached eggs around the dish with the cakes, alternating the colors.
Sift powdered sweet biscuits over and around the snow cakes.
Strew ground popcorn over all.
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.
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Egg + biscuittop 27% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together1,643 recipes
Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
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