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Eggnog and Cranberry Salad

"This is a perfect recipe for the holidays. It gives a delicious and beautiful combination of holiday favorites - cranberries and eggnog."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Cranberry and pecans share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 33 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

9 servings

Ingredients

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

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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. Cranberry + pecanstop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together33 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Vanilla + raspberrytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together948 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl benzoate (fruity, sweet).

  3. Raspberry + cranberrytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together51 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl benzoate (fruity, sweet).

  4. Lemon + nutmegtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together11,318 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Lemon + raspberrytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,090 recipes

    Shared aroma: sabinene (woody, terpenic).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the pecans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (vanilla, lemon, raspberry, cranberry, sauce, nutmeg):

  1. Almondbetter flavor fit
  2. Walnutbetter flavor fit
  3. Pistachiobetter flavor fit
  4. Pecansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against vanilla, lemon, raspberry, cranberry, sauce, nutmeg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).