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Chess Pie with Blackened Pineapple Salsa and Caramel Sauce

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Why it works: Pineapple and rum match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 451 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

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Makes 6 servings

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat, peanut (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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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. Pineapple + rumtop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Butter + creamtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Pineapple + limetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together469 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  4. Peanut + limetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together458 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Lime + rumtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together412 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the peanut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, sugar, butter, pineapple, lime, rum, cream):

  1. Almondbetter flavor fit
  2. Macadamia nutbetter flavor fit
  3. Pistachioabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Peanutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, sugar, butter, pineapple, lime, rum, cream. 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).