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Pancakes with Red Currants

Tasty, fluffy and sweet pancakes with a bit sour red currant kissel sauce.

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Red currant and potato share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 68 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

  • The Sauce

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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. Red currant + potatotop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together68 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Milk + potatotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  3. Milk + flourtop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together76,993 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Egg + flourtop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together104,138 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Egg + milktop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together88,465 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Milk and flour share little aroma chemistry, yet 76,993 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

Flavor stand-ins for the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, milk, flour, red currant, sugar):

  1. Arrowrootbetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Sweet potatoabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, milk, flour, red currant, sugar. 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).