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Orange Dream

"Ahhh, this tastes just like those orange push ups you used to get at the store. Very easy recipe that everyone will love, especially on that hot summer day."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Orange Dream

Why it works: Condensed milk and sugar work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 804 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Orange Dream

10 servings
Prep5 min
Cook40 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

260Calories
9 gProtein
8 gFat
40 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
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Toppingnot 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. Condensed milk + sugartop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together804 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Orange + sugartop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together19,212 recipes

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

  3. Orange + condensed milktop 32% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together47 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Orange and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 19,212 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the orange

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Bananafits better
  4. Orangethe original

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