Name: Heirloom Pea Pancakes with Smoked Salmon and Crème Fraîche Recipe
Ingredients: Coarse sea salt or kosher salt; 4 ounces sugar snap peas, trimmed; 1/2 cup green peas, preferably freshly shelled; 2 tablespoons whole milk; 1 tablespoon heavy cream; 1 large egg, lightly beaten; 1/4 cup all-purpose flour; 1/2 teaspoon baking powder; 1/2 teaspoon sugar; 2 tablespoons unsalted butter; Freshly ground pepper to taste; 1 cup crème fraîche or sour cream; 4 ounces smoked or; salmon, sliced; Freshly snipped chives, for garnish

Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

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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.

Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together81,283 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together41,516 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together43,450 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together124,287 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Milk + flourtop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together78,219 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, milk, cream, egg, flour, butter, pepper):

Almondfits better
Chestnutfits better
Pistachiofits better
Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, milk, cream, egg, flour, butter, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Salmon	100g cooked	208
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Yogurt	170g plain Greek	100
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Pea	1/2 cup (72g)	62
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Bell Pepper	1 medium (119g)	31
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Chive	1 tbsp (3g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

Heirloom Pea Pancakes with Smoked Salmon and Crème Fraîche Recipe