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Lemon Verbena and Summer Fruit Gelée

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon verbena and lemon work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 13 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

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Makes 8 (dessert) servings

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By epicurious. 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. Lemon verbena + lemontop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together13 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Sugar + gelatintop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,778 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Wine + lemontop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5,993 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Wine + peachtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together213 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

  5. Peach + lemontop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together947 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the peach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lemon verbena, wine, sugar, lemon, gelatin):

  1. Orangebetter flavor fit
  2. Vanillaabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon verbena, wine, sugar, lemon, gelatin. 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).