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Creamy Lavender Flan

By aspicyperspective · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Evaporated milk and cream cheese work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and 70 recipes mention both. The science ↓

The recipe

6-8 servings

Ingredients

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

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By aspicyperspective. 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. Evaporated milk + cream cheesetop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together70 recipes
  2. Condensed milk + evaporated milktop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together168 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Sugar + vanillatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together35,031 recipes

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

  4. Cream cheese + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,934 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  5. Condensed milk + cream cheesetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together165 recipes

Sugar and vanilla share little aroma chemistry, yet 35,031 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, lavender, condensed milk, evaporated milk, egg, cream cheese, vanilla):

  1. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  2. Blueberrybetter flavor fit
  3. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, lavender, condensed milk, evaporated milk, egg, cream cheese, 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).