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Ultimate Cranberry Sauce

"This quick and easy cranberry sauce gets extra flavor from orange zest and fresh grated ginger."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Ultimate Cranberry Sauce

Why it works: Orange and ginger match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,833 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Ultimate Cranberry Sauce

2 cups
Prep10 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

309Calories
4 gProtein
21 gFat
32 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pecans1 oz (28g / ~19 halves)196
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Orange + gingertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,833 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Sugar + gingertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together14,054 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  3. Orange + pecanstop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together353 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Sugar + orangetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together19,212 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Ginger + pecanstop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together232 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

Sugar and ginger barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 14,054 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the pecans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, orange, ginger):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Sesamefits better
  3. Cashew nutfits better
  4. Pecansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, orange, ginger. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.