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Fresh Peach Trifle

"This dessert is one of my favorites. Although you have to put a little work into it, the results can be described with one word: Yummy!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Peach and vanilla match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 558 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

The recipe

8 servings
Prep35 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Toss the peach slices with the lemon juice in a bowl so they do not darken, then set them aside.

  2. Stir the lemon zest into the vanilla yogurt until evenly combined.

  3. Cut or tear the angel food cake into bite-sized pieces.

  4. In a large glass trifle bowl, layer one third of the cake pieces, then one third of the peaches with their juice, then one third of the lemon yogurt.

  5. Repeat the layers two more times, finishing with the yogurt spread smoothly over the top.

  6. Cover the bowl and refrigerate for at least 1 hour so the cake softens and the flavors blend before serving.

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

  1. Peach + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together558 recipes

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

  2. Peach + yogurttop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together195 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  3. Vanilla + yogurttop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,191 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Peach + lemontop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together947 recipes

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

  5. Lemon + yogurttop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,095 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peach, vanilla, yogurt):

  1. Raspberrybetter flavor fit
  2. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  3. Blackberrybetter flavor fit
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peach, vanilla, yogurt. 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).