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Poppy Seed Dressing I

"I make this dressing, and have it on hand in the fridge to use on any vegetable salad. Recipe is easily doubled."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and poppy seed work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 179 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-hexanal, which smells fruit. The science ↓

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6 servings
Prep5 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk (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. Milk + poppy seedtop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together179 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  2. Sugar + vinegartop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together20,804 recipes

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

  3. Milk + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together77,855 recipes

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

  4. Vinegar + poppy seedtop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together104 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-methylbutanol (malty, whiskey).

  5. Sugar + poppy seedtop 16% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together348 recipes

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

Milk and sugar share little aroma chemistry, yet 77,855 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