Name: Jalapeño-Cheese Corn "Dogs" Recipe
Cook time: 45 min
Yield: 16 pieces
Ingredients: 2 quarts vegetable oil , for frying; 2 (8-ounce) rectangular blocks pepper jack cheese; 1 cup fine- or medium-ground yellow cornmeal; 1 cup all-purpose flour; 1 tablespoon baking powder; 1/2 teaspoon fine salt; 1 cup whole milk; 2 large eggs; 2 tablespoons honey; 2 tablespoons granulated sugar; 2 jalapeños , stemmed and finely chopped (about 2 tablespoons)

Why it works: Milk and honey are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,336 recipes. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity. The science ↓

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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 + honeytop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,336 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).
Cheese + milktop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,426 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Cheese + honeytop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together259 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).
Flour + milktop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together78,219 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together92,116 recipes

Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

Flour and milk barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 78,219 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Cheese	1 oz (28g) cheddar	113
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Honey	1 tbsp (21g)	64
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

Jalapeño-Cheese Corn "Dogs" Recipe