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Pink Fluff

"My mother has been making this form of ambrosia salad for years. To make blue fluff, substitute Blue Raspberry or Berry Blue Jell-O for the raspberry gelatin."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cherry and raspberry match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 188 recipes mention both. Both carry damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

The recipe

6 servings
Prep15 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk (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. In a large bowl, stir the cottage cheese and the dry raspberry Jell-O mix together until the powder is evenly mixed in and no dry specks remain.

  2. Drain the crushed pineapple well, pressing out the excess juice, then fold it into the cottage cheese mixture.

  3. Fold in the cherry pie filling until it is evenly distributed through the mixture.

  4. Gently fold in the thawed whipped topping until the mixture is smooth and uniformly pink.

  5. Cover the bowl and refrigerate for at least 2 hours, or until chilled and firm enough to scoop.

  6. Spoon into serving dishes or a bowl and serve cold.

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. Cherry + raspberrytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together188 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Pineapple + cherrytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together537 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Cottage cheese + pineappletop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together42 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  4. Pineapple + raspberrytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together193 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, sweet).

  5. Cottage cheese + raspberrytop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together13 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cherry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cottage cheese, pineapple, raspberry):

  1. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  2. Peachbetter flavor fit
  3. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  4. Cherrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cottage cheese, pineapple, raspberry. 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).