Name: Cocoa-nut Bread
Ingredients: finely grated coconut; cocoa-nut milk; bread dough ingredients

Why it works: Coconut and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,648 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Cocoa-nut Bread

Ingredients

finely grated coconut
cocoa-nut milk
bread dough ingredients

Directions

Mix finely grated coconut with the same proportion as for biscuit dough.
Use strongly flavored cocoa-nut milk to make the dough.
Proceed as you would for making other bread.
Bake until golden and cooked through.

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.

Coconut + milktop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,648 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Cocoa + milktop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together643 recipes

Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).
Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,466 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
Cocoa + breadtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together103 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).
Coconut + cocoatop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together20 recipes

Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).