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Freezer Pie Filling

"Makes pie fillings from fresh fruit to freeze for later use. Double, triple or quadruple the recipe as needed. Try using peaches, pears, or cherries."

This recipe’s ingredient list has no crust or pastry, so it bakes more like a fruit dish than a pastry pie.

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 53,530 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

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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. Sugar + lemontop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together53,530 recipes

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

Sugar and lemon share little aroma chemistry, yet 53,530 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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