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Great-Grandmother Bubbie's Hamantaschen

"Brought over from Poland by my great-grandmother, these little fruit-filled cookies are traditional for the Jewish holiday Purim where they are put in gift baskets and given to all one's friends. We always make extra so there are some left over for us, they are the best! (The filling can be anything, for a shortcut, you can substitute any flavor of jam, but this is the original filling.)"

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Why it works: Safflower and walnut share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 12 recipes mention both. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

The recipe

3 dozen
Prep20 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Safflower + walnuttop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together12 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  2. Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,632 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Apricot + orangetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together703 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  4. Safflower + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together47 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  5. Lemon + walnuttop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,149 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the safflower

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apricot, egg, sugar, lemon, orange, flour, walnut):

  1. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  2. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  3. Nutmegbetter flavor fit
  4. Safflowerthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apricot, egg, sugar, lemon, orange, flour, walnut. 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).