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Mother's Whipped Lime Dessert

"Mother made this often this during WW II when sugar was rationed. You can use any flavor gelatin (I personally like the green lime). It is a light sweet especially good after a heavy meal or during warm weather."

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Mother's Whipped Lime Dessert

Why it works: Lime and vanilla match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 295 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Mother's Whipped Lime Dessert

6 servings
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

172Calories
8 gProtein
8 gFat
16 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 4 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Waternot 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.

By allrecipes. 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Lime + vanillatop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together295 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Evaporated milk + vanillatop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together514 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Lime + evaporated milktop 34% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together25 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (evaporated milk, vanilla):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Bananafits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Limethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against evaporated milk, vanilla. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.