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Lemon Poppy Seed Biscotti

"Extremely low fat and tasty biscotti cookies. Perfect for dipping in hot coffee or tea."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and poppy seed work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 166 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

3 dozen

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Lemon + poppy seedtop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together166 recipes

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

  2. Almond + poppy seedtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together91 recipes

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

  3. Flour + almondtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together8,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Flour + eggtop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together104,138 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Almond + lemontop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

Flour and egg share little aroma chemistry, yet 104,138 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