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Original Irish Cream

"Irish whiskey mixed with cream and sugar with hints of coffee, chocolate, vanilla, and almond. Will keep for 2 months if refrigerated."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Original Irish Cream

Why it works: Condensed milk and syrup match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 118 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Original Irish Cream

4 cups
Prep15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

374Calories
10 gProtein
23 gFat
30 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 8 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Whiskeynot in our table0
Coffeenot in our table0
Syrupnot 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 + syruptop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together118 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Vanilla + almondtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,961 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Coffee + chocolatetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,497 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (buttery, creamy).

  4. Chocolate + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,020 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  5. Coffee + vanillatop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,391 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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

Swap the almond

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, condensed milk, coffee, chocolate, syrup, vanilla):

  1. Hazelnutfits better
  2. Almondthe original
  3. Cocoafits about as well
  4. Nutsfits about as well

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