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Sausage Apple Quiche

"Sliced apple adds a unique twist to this traditional sausage quiche."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Swiss cheese and apple share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 18 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

The recipe

8 servings

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat (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. Swiss cheese + appletop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together18 recipes

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

  2. Swiss cheese + parmesan cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together151 recipes

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

  3. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together34,118 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Chive + parsleytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,150 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Milk + appletop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,099 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (swiss cheese, parmesan cheese, chive, egg, milk, sugar, pepper):

  1. Nutmegabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Dillabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Celeryabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against swiss cheese, parmesan cheese, chive, egg, milk, sugar, pepper. 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).