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Oatmeal Cookies

A baked cookie made with oatmeal, milk, celery, banana, sugar, and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Oatmeal Cookies

Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Oatmeal Cookies

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

Make the dough

  1. In a bowl, mix the milk, celery, and oatmeal until combined.

  2. Add the sugar, prune butter, and mashed banana to the mixture.

  3. Form the mixture into small cookies and place them on a baking sheet.

Bake

  1. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown.

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.

  1. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Celery + buckwheattop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together12 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Milk + bananatop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,470 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Oatmeal
Provides the bulk and chewy texture that gives the cookies their body.
Banana
Adds moisture and natural sweetness to bind the cookies.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the cookies brown during baking.
Prune butter
Adds moisture, sweetness, and a dense, soft texture.

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, buckwheat, bread, sugar, butter, banana):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Gingerfits better
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, buckwheat, bread, sugar, butter, banana. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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.

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