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Cranberry-Raspberry Dessert Sauce

"This is a family favorite I make every year for Thanksgiving. The raspberries give it that added sweetness that makes you go for seconds! It's best served chilled or warm over ice cream."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Cranberry-Raspberry Dessert Sauce

Why it works: Orange and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 19,212 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Cranberry-Raspberry Dessert Sauce

16 servings
Prep10 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

175Calories
3 gProtein
1 gFat
43 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Raspberry1 cup (123g)64
Orange Juice1 medium (131g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49

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

By allrecipes. 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. Orange + sugartop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together19,212 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

Orange and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 19,212 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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