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Passover Komish

"This recipe for Passover komish (a type of cookie) is so good and so easy to make that you'll want to prepare it all year long! This cookie is similar to biscotti."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 3,514 recipes mention both. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

The recipe

3 to 4 dozen cookies
Prep10 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, tree nuts (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 (175°C) and line two baking sheets with parchment paper.

  2. In a large bowl, beat the eggs with the first cup of white sugar until thick and pale, about 3 minutes.

  3. Beat in the vegetable oil and almond extract until smooth.

  4. Stir in the matzo meal, potato starch and salt until a soft dough forms. Fold in the chopped walnuts and chocolate sprinkles.

  5. In a shallow dish, mix the second cup of white sugar with the ground cinnamon.

  6. Lightly dampen your hands with water, then shape the dough into small logs about 2 inches long.

  7. Roll each log in the cinnamon sugar to coat and place on the prepared sheets about 2 inches apart.

  8. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes, until golden and firm to the touch. Cool on the sheets for 5 minutes, then move to a wire rack to finish cooling.

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. Almond + cinnamontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,514 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Almond + walnuttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together993 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  3. Almond + chocolatetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,733 recipes

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

  4. Sugar + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together30,777 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Walnut + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,147 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

Sugar and cinnamon share little aroma chemistry, yet 30,777 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, sugar, almond, walnut, chocolate, cinnamon):

  1. Sweet potatobetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Beetrootbetter flavor fit
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, sugar, almond, walnut, chocolate, cinnamon. 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).