Why it works: Flour and buckwheat work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 660 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓
Buckwheat Pancakes
Ingredients
Directions
In a bowl, combine warm water, buttermilk, salt, hop yeast, flour, and buckwheat to form a stiff batter.
Cover the bowl and let the batter stand overnight.
The next day, mix baking soda with boiling water and stir it into the batter slowly.
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.
Explore the science
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.
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Flour + buckwheattop 4% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together660 recipes
Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
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Buttermilk + flourtop 8% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together3,721 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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Buttermilk + buckwheattop 19% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together40 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Swap the buckwheat
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (buttermilk, flour):
- Jalapenofits better
- Buckwheatthe original
- Nutmegfits less well
- Cinnamonfits less well
Fit is the average pairing score against buttermilk, flour. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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