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World's Best Key Lime Pie

"Very easy, very good, light Key lime taste that still makes you pucker. Took me a while to perfect this one. No baking, no fuss - takes me 10 or 15 minutes to make."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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World's Best Key Lime Pie

Why it works: Condensed milk and lime work together. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 122 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

World's Best Key Lime Pie

1 - 10 inch pie

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

226Calories
9 gProtein
10 gFat
27 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 5 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Cracker5 saltine crackers (15g)66
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Pie Crustnot in our table0
Toppingnot in our table0

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. Condensed milk + limetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together122 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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