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Double Ginger Cookies

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Double Ginger Cookies

Why it works: Wheat and flaxseed share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 68 recipes. Both carry 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol, which smells clove, smoky. The science ↓

Double Ginger Cookies

Makes about 2 dozen cookies

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

649Calories
14 gProtein
15 gFat
112 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 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
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Flaxseednot 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 epicurious. 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. Wheat + flaxseedtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together68 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  2. Ginger + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,154 recipes

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

  3. Flaxseed + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together151 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Flaxseed + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together147 recipes

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

Sugar and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, wheat, ginger, sugar, flaxseed, canola oil, vanilla):

  1. Blueberryfits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, wheat, ginger, sugar, flaxseed, canola oil, vanilla. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.