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Sherry Chiffon Pie

"An oldie from my mother's recipe file. A heavenly cream pie accented with almonds and vanilla, surrounded by a chocolate cookie crust. This recipe contains raw eggs. We recommend that pregnant women, young children, the elderly and the infirm do not consume raw eggs."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and sherry work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 517 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

1 pie

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, tree nuts (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. Almond + sherrytop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together517 recipes

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

  2. Chocolate + almondtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,733 recipes

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

  3. Gelatin + sugartop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,778 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Chocolate + milktop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together9,121 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  5. Milk + sherrytop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,479 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the almond

The recipe marks almond as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chocolate, gelatin, milk, sugar, egg, sherry):

  1. Almondthe original
  2. Cocoaabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Pecansabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against chocolate, gelatin, milk, sugar, egg, sherry. 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).