Name: Chester County Scrapple
Ingredients: 1 gallon broth; 7 lbs pudding meat; cornmeal; buckwheat flour; salt; pepper

Why it works: Buckwheat and flour work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 660 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Chester County Scrapple

Ingredients

Directions

In a large pot, combine the broth and pudding meat.
Add cornmeal and buckwheat flour until the mixture thickens to a mush consistency.
Season with salt and pepper to taste.

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.

Buckwheat + flourtop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together660 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Buckwheat + peppertop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together79 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Flour + peppertop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together50,459 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Meat + peppertop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together8,777 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Meat + buckwheattop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together28 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).