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Peaches 'n Cream Pie

"A wonderfully, easy pie to make that is good warm or cold, and makes its own crust!"

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Why it works: Peach and cream cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 51 recipes mention both. Both carry gamma-decalactone, which smells peach, creamy. The science ↓

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1 pie

Ingredients

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

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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. Peach + cream cheesetop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together51 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  2. Vanilla + peachtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together558 recipes

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

  3. Vanilla + milktop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together19,175 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  4. Butter + milktop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together81,222 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  5. Butter + cream cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,746 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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