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Struan Muffins Recipe

These tender muffins were inspired by Peter Reinhart's Struan bread recipe. The oats, cornmeal and cooked rice give them great texture, while the brown sugar...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Oats and poppy seed share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 18 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Struan Muffins Recipe

12 muffins

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1132Calories
31 gProtein
26 gFat
192 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Oat1/2 cup dry (40g)154
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Poppy Seednot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By chow. 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Oats + poppy seedtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together18 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  2. Flour + buttermilktop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,721 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Sugar + buttermilktop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,973 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Oats + ricetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together349 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. Rice + poppy seedtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together37 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-methylbutanol (malty, whiskey).

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

Swap the poppy seed

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, oats, rice, sugar, buttermilk):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Turmericfits better
  4. Poppy seedthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, oats, rice, sugar, buttermilk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.