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Spiced Persimmon Butter

"Cooked in a slow cooker, this is an easy and excellent way to use the fruit of a Fuyu persimmon tree. Spicy and full of natural sweetness, the jars make wonderful gifts or keep well in the refrigerator for one's own use. This spread is used just like jelly or apple butter and it is especially delicious on a hearty whole grain toasted bread."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Persimmon and agave share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 3 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

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4 half-pint jars
Prep40 min
Cook10 hr

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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. Persimmon + agavetop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  3. Persimmon + cinnamontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together47 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Cinnamon + agavetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together130 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Lemon + cinnamontop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together7,950 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (persimmon, cinnamon, clove, agave, syrup):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Orangebetter flavor fit
  3. Blueberrybetter flavor fit
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against persimmon, cinnamon, clove, agave, syrup. 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).