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Guava Pie

"Enjoy a taste of the tropics with this guava pie. Spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg, it's sweet, flavorful, and perfect for dessert."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Guava Pie

Why it works: Cinnamon and nutmeg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,917 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Guava Pie

1 9-inch pie
Prep20 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

635Calories
14 gProtein
14 gFat
114 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 10 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Nutmeg1 tsp ground (2.2g)12
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Pastrynot in our table0
Pienot in our table0
Guavanot in our table0

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

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Cinnamon + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,917 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Lime + guavatop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together30 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Lime + cinnamontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together470 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Lime + nutmegtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together236 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Flour + nutmegtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,623 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the guava

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, sugar, lime, cinnamon, nutmeg, butter):

  1. Raisinfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Guavathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, sugar, lime, cinnamon, nutmeg, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.