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Rich Coffee Cake

A mild coffee cake with rich tea biscuits. (Inspired by my mother)

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Coffee and tea match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 259 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-methyl-3-(methyldithio)furan, which smells thiamin, meat. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 8

Ingredients

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

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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. Coffee + teatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together259 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methyl-3-(methyldithio)furan (thiamin, meat).

  2. Butter + flourtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together122,858 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Flour + biscuittop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together871 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Sugar + biscuittop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,873 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  5. Sugar + coffeetop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,344 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

Butter and flour share little aroma chemistry, yet 122,858 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