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Cheddar & Sweetcorn Scones

Savoury scones make a great meal with a bowl of soup, or a tasty addition to afternoon tea

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Sweetcorn and lemon work together. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and 43 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 10
Prep15 min
Cook12 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By bbcgoodfood. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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. Sweetcorn + lemontop 20% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together43 recipes

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

  2. Thyme + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,973 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Butter + milktop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together81,222 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  4. Mustard + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together913 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Flour + buttertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together122,858 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and butter 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

Flavor stand-ins for the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sweetcorn, flour, thyme, butter, milk, lemon):

  1. Potatobetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Carrotbetter flavor fit
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sweetcorn, flour, thyme, butter, milk, lemon. 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).