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Skillet Custard with Berry Sauce

"This is a quick dessert or snack that my daughter loves, it's often a request for school lunches. And with a quick switch from sugar to sweetener, it is okay for my diabetic mom too!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and clove match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 14,027 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings
Prep15 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

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

  • Berry Sauce
  • Custard

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Heat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. Place the blackberries, chopped strawberries and blueberries in a small saucepan with the thawed grape juice concentrate over medium heat.

  3. Simmer for 5 minutes, mashing the berries with a spoon until the sauce thickens slightly. Set aside to cool.

  4. In a bowl, whisk the eggs, heavy cream, milk and white sugar until smooth.

  5. Whisk in the rice flour, baking powder, ground cinnamon, ground cloves and ground allspice until no lumps remain.

  6. Pour the custard into a dry ovenproof nonstick skillet, or a cast iron skillet with no grease added.

  7. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes, until the custard is set in the center and reaches 160°F (71°C) on an instant-read thermometer.

  8. Cut into wedges and spoon the warm berry sauce over the top before serving.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Cinnamon + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,027 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Milk + ricetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together7,354 recipes

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

  3. Rice + cinnamontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,121 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Sugar + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together30,777 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Milk + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together12,647 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

Sugar and cinnamon share little aroma chemistry, yet 30,777 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the grape

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, cream, milk, sugar, rice, flour, cinnamon):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Raisinbetter flavor fit
  3. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  4. Grapethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, cream, milk, sugar, rice, flour, cinnamon. 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).