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Hampshire Hoggins

"This is a no cook dessert dish which is always a talking point among dinner guests. If you are dieting or calorie conscious, don't bother."

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Hampshire Hoggins

Why it works: Mandarin orange and ginger share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 26 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Hampshire Hoggins

4 servings
Prep15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

281Calories
5 gProtein
13 gFat
38 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 5 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Biscuit1 medium (45g)166
Mandarin Orange1 medium (131g)62
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Nutnot 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. Mandarin orange + gingertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together26 recipes

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

  2. Cream + biscuittop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,235 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

  3. Ginger + biscuittop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together175 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Cream + gingertop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,137 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Mandarin orange + biscuittop 32% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1 recipe

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Swap the mandarin orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, ginger, biscuit):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Vanillafits better
  4. Mandarin orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, ginger, biscuit. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.