Name: Rice Bread with Raisins
Ingredients: 2 slices of rice bread; 100 grams of raisins; 75 grams of oleomargarine

Why it works: Rice bread and raisin share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Rice Bread with Raisins

Ingredients

2 slices of rice bread
100 grams of raisins
75 grams of oleomargarine

Directions

Spread oleomargarine on each slice of rice bread.
Evenly distribute raisins on top of the oleomargarine.
Serve as a sandwich or snack.

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.

Rice bread + raisintop 18% of all pairs

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Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Rice bread: Provides the base structure that holds the spread and raisins.
Raisins: Add sweetness and chewy texture to the sandwich.
Oleomargarine: Adds fat and moisture that helps the raisins stick and softens the bread.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.