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Rhubarb Orange Cream Pie

"Delicious - I bake this for my 93 year old grandmother each rhubarb season, and she just loves it. Like when I was a kid, she says... mmmmm good! Everyone wants some."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Rhubarb Orange Cream Pie

Why it works: Orange and rhubarb work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 299 recipes. Both carry 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol, which smells clove, smoky. The science ↓

Rhubarb Orange Cream Pie

1 - 9 inch pie

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

795Calories
22 gProtein
19 gFat
135 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 9 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Strawberry1 cup (152g)49
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Pie Crustnot in our table0
Rhubarbnot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Orange + rhubarbtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together299 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  2. Strawberry + rhubarbtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together193 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  3. Flour + rhubarbtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together670 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Orange + strawberrytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together726 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, egg, strawberry, sugar, flour, rhubarb):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Blueberryfits better
  3. Raisinfits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, egg, strawberry, sugar, flour, rhubarb. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.