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Lavender Ginger Spread

"Spread on toast, crackers, or pita bread."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Lavender Ginger Spread

Why it works: Cream cheese and goat cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 44 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Lavender Ginger Spread

20 servings
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

304Calories
25 gProtein
19 gFat
9 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 7 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Goat Cheese1 oz (28g)103
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Waternot in our table0
Lavendernot in our table0
Flowernot 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.

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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. Cream cheese + goat cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together44 recipes

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

  2. Honey + yogurttop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together660 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  3. Cream cheese + yogurttop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together873 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Goat cheese + honeytop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  5. Honey + gingertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,163 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

Swap the ginger

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream cheese, goat cheese, honey, yogurt, lavender):

  1. Rosemaryfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Mintfits better
  4. Gingerthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream cheese, goat cheese, honey, yogurt, lavender. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.