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Mandarin Blue Cherry Jam

"A great easy recipe for jam I found by using leftovers after hitting the blueberry patch in Michigan!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Mandarin orange and lemon share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 54 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

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7 cups
Prep30 min
Cook5 min

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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 + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together54 recipes

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

  2. Lemon + sugartop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together53,530 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Mandarin orange + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together127 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

Lemon and sugar share little aroma chemistry, yet 53,530 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 (mandarin orange, sugar):

  1. Vanillaabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Orangeabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mandarin orange, sugar. 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).