Name: Whole Wheat Ginger Snaps
Ingredients: ½ teaspoon Magic Soda; 1 teaspoon ground ginger; whole wheat flour (as needed)

Why it works: Ginger and wheat work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 255 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Whole Wheat Ginger Snaps

Ingredients

½ teaspoon Magic Soda
1 teaspoon ground ginger
whole wheat flour (as needed)

Directions

Remove from heat and immediately add ½ teaspoon Magic Soda and 1 teaspoon ground ginger.
Stir in whole wheat flour until the mixture is thick enough to roll.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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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.

Ginger + wheattop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together255 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Wheat + flourtop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,373 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Ginger + flourtop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together8,564 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).