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Peanut Butter No-Bakes

"Easy, nutritious, and no baking. You may substitute granola for the rice cereal if you wish."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Peanut and butter match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,621 recipes mention both. Both carry trans-2-decenal, which smells waxy, orange. The science ↓

The recipe

3 dozen

Ingredients

Contains: milk, peanut (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. Peanut + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,621 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  2. Peanut + ricetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together592 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  3. Butter + ricetop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,587 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-undecalactone (peach, sweet).

  4. Sugar + evaporated milktop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together804 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Sugar + buttertop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together98,096 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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