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Blue Cheese, Cumin and Greek Yogurt Scones

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Why it works: Yogurt and blue cheese match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 100 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. 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. Yogurt + blue cheesetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together100 recipes

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

  2. Cumin + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,382 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  3. Blue cheese + buttertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together226 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  4. Yogurt + buttertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,321 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Yogurt + cumintop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together975 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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