Name: East Coast Donairs Recipe
Yield: Depends on how much meat you use!
Ingredients: 5Lbs of Hamburg; 1 tsp pepper; 1 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper; 3 1/2 tsp Oregano; 1/4 Cup MSG.; 2 tsp paprika; 2-3 tsp onion salt; 1 tsp garlic salt; 1 tsp salt; 1 Cup bread crumbs; 1 can of Carnation milk; 1/2 Cup white sugar; 1/2 Cup Vinegar; (add garlic powder if you like); cornstarch & water to thicken it up; 1 tsp white sugar; 1/2 cup warm water; 1 pkg of dry yeast; 1/4 Cup Vegetable oil; 2 1/2 Cups of Luke warm water; 1 Table spoon salt; 7-8 cups of flour

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 29,058 recipes mention both. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

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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.

Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Oregano + garlictop 2% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together3,756 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Pepper + oreganotop 5% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together3,449 recipes

Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).
Pepper + garlictop 8% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together27,090 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together11,466 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the oregano

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, onion, garlic, bread, milk, sugar, vinegar):

Thymebetter flavor fit
Parsleybetter flavor fit
Cinnamonabout as good a flavor fit
Oreganothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, onion, garlic, bread, milk, sugar, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

East Coast Donairs Recipe