Name: Lime Mousse Pie
Ingredients: 3/4 cup Lime juice; 2 tablespoons Rum or orange liqueur (optional); 7 Leaves unflavored gelatin; 1/2 cup Water; 6 Eggs; 5 1/2 cups Fresh whipping cream; 1 Angel cake; 1 1/2 cups Sugar

Why it works: Gelatin and cream match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,628 recipes. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

Lime Mousse Pie

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

306Calories

14 gProtein

11 gFat

32 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 9 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Orange	1 medium (131g)	62
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Rum	1/2 oz (15ml)	32
Gelatin	1 envelope (7g)	23
Lime	juice of 1 lime (44ml)	11
Water	not in our table	0
Cake	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

Recipe from Foodista.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Gelatin + creamtop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,628 recipes

Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).
Gelatin + sugartop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,778 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together43,450 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Lime + rumtop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together412 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
Rum + sugartop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,908 recipes

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

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

Swap the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rum, gelatin, egg, cream, sugar):

Vanillafits better
Pineapplefits better
Strawberryfits better
Limethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rum, gelatin, egg, cream, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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