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An Uncooked Wheat Dish

A dish of soaked wheat mixed with cream and egg, served plain or with optional fig sauce, nuts, raisins, or dates.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Fig and dates work together. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 318 recipes. Both carry 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol, which smells clove, smoky. The science ↓

An Uncooked Wheat Dish

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Grind the wheat.

  2. Soak the desired amount of wheat for about four hours.

Serve

  1. Beat the cream and egg together.

  2. Serve the soaked wheat with the cream and egg mixture.

  3. Optionally, serve with fig sauce, chopped nuts, raisins, or dates.

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.

  1. Fig + datestop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together318 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  2. Fig + raisintop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together737 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Wheat + figtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together70 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Nuts + raisintop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together490 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Wheat
Forms the porridge base; soaking softens the grain so it becomes tender to eat.
Cream
Adds richness and moisture, giving the porridge a smooth, creamy mouthfeel.
Egg
Adds richness and body when beaten into the cream, helping bind the dish together.

Swap the fig

The recipe marks fig as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (wheat, cream, egg, sauce, nuts, raisin, dates):

  1. Figthe original
  2. Vanillafits about as well
  3. Coconutfits about as well
  4. Pumpkinfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against wheat, cream, egg, sauce, nuts, raisin, dates. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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.

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