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Paul Hollywood’s Bloomer

Fresh from the oven with a sliver of butter melting into it, or the next day as toast with anything from marmalade to pâté spread on top, there’s no beating a homemade white loaf.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and 13,452 recipes mention both. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Paul Hollywood’s Bloomer

Makes 1 loaf
Cook1 hr

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By bbcfood. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Flour + olivetop 15% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together13,452 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and olive share little aroma chemistry, yet 13,452 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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