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Fruit-on-the-Bottom Tapioca Pudding

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Tapioca pearl and sugar work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 13 recipes mention both. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 6 servings

Ingredients

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

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Tapioca pearl + sugartop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together13 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Cream + sugartop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together43,437 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Cream + coffeetop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together2,339 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

  4. Sugar + coffeetop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,344 recipes

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

  5. Sugar + fenneltop 15% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together408 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the fennel

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tapioca pearl, cream, sugar, coffee):

  1. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  2. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  3. Nutmegbetter flavor fit
  4. Fennelthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tapioca pearl, cream, sugar, coffee. 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).