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Holiday Brie En Croute

"This pastry-wrapped soft cheese can be served year 'round. Baked until the cheese melts, this elegant appetizer is topped with dried cranberries, apricot preserves and toasted almonds. Serve with crackers to a grateful crowd."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Apricot and cranberry share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 18 recipes mention both. Both carry 4-methoxybenzaldehyde, which smells sweet, anise. The science ↓

The recipe

12 servings

Ingredients

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

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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. Apricot + cranberrytop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together18 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  2. Brie + cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together161 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Cranberry + almondtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-methylbutanol (malty, whiskey).

  4. Apricot + almondtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together852 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Apricot + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together65 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the apricot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, cranberry, almond, brie, cheese):

  1. Figbetter flavor fit
  2. Applebetter flavor fit
  3. Pearbetter flavor fit
  4. Apricotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, cranberry, almond, brie, cheese. 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).