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Holiday Spiced Cranberry Relish

"Cranberries and spices and fruit, what more is there? This is a wonderful side dish on any occasion. Serve chilled in chutney jar."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Mandarin orange and cranberry share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 7 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

3 1/2 cups
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Drain the crushed pineapple and mandarin oranges well in a colander, pressing lightly to remove excess juice.

  2. Place the whole berry cranberry sauce in a large bowl and break it up with a fork.

  3. Add the drained pineapple, mandarin oranges, ground cinnamon, brown sugar, and vanilla extract to the bowl.

  4. Stir gently for about 2 minutes until the fruit and spices are evenly combined.

  5. Cover and refrigerate until well chilled, at least 1 hour, then stir again before serving.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Mandarin orange + cranberrytop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together7 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Pineapple + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together911 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Cinnamon + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,287 recipes

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

  4. Berry + cranberrytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together68 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  5. Cranberry + cinnamontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together116 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the mandarin orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pineapple, berry, cranberry, sauce, cinnamon, sugar, vanilla):

  1. Orangebetter flavor fit
  2. Applebetter flavor fit
  3. Peachbetter flavor fit
  4. Mandarin orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pineapple, berry, cranberry, sauce, cinnamon, sugar, vanilla. 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).