Name: Daily Bread
Ingredients: 1 cup whole wheat flour; ½ cup raw skinned peanuts; ¼ cup stoned dried prunes

Why it works: Wheat and peanut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 151 recipes. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓

Daily Bread

Ingredients

1 cup whole wheat flour
½ cup raw skinned peanuts
¼ cup stoned dried prunes

Directions

Prepare

Grind the whole wheat coarsely.
Grind the raw skinned peanuts.
Grind the stoned dried prunes.

Mix and serve

Cream the peanuts and prunes separately with the flour.
Mix the creamed peanuts and prunes together.
Serve dry.

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.

Explore the science

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.

Wheat + peanuttop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together151 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).
Wheat + flourtop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,373 recipes

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

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,427 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Whole wheat flour: Provides the main starchy bulk and structure of the mixture.
Peanuts: Adds fat and richness with a nutty, slightly crunchy texture.
Prunes: Adds sweetness and moisture to the mixture.