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Mandarin Orange Ice Cream with Sesame Brittle

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and mandarin orange work together. They rank in the top 24% of all ingredient pairs, and 30 recipes mention both. Both carry acetaldehyde, which smells pungent, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes about 2 quarts

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, sesame (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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By epicurious. 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Cream + mandarin orangetop 24% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together30 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetaldehyde (pungent, ethereal).

  2. Cream + sugartop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together43,437 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Honey + sesametop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together527 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  4. Mandarin orange + honeytop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together25 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Egg + sugartop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together122,252 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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