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Orange Poppy Seed Bread

"Extremely yummy!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and poppy seed work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 74 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-hexanol, which smells resin, flower. The science ↓

The recipe

1 - 9x5 inch loaf
Prep10 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

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

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (177°C). Lightly grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan with a little of the vegetable oil.

  2. In a large bowl, whisk the beaten eggs, the remaining vegetable oil and the hot water until smooth.

  3. Add the white cake mix, all three packages of orange Jell-O, the coconut cream pudding mix and the poppy seeds. Stir until just combined and no dry streaks remain.

  4. Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan and smooth the top.

  5. Bake for 50 to 60 minutes, until the top is golden and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. The eggs must be fully set.

  6. Cool the loaf in the pan for 10 minutes, then turn it out onto a rack to cool completely before slicing.

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

  1. Orange + poppy seedtop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together74 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanol (resin, flower).

  2. Orange + coconuttop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together583 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Coconut + poppy seedtop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together50 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanol (resin, flower).

  4. Coconut + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,214 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Egg + poppy seedtop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together283 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the coconut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (orange, cream, egg, poppy seed):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  3. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  4. Coconutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against orange, cream, egg, poppy seed. 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).