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Why it works: White wine and fig share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 29 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

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8 to 10 servings

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Contains: milk, wheat (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. White wine + figtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29 recipes

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

  2. Fig + apricottop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together97 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Fig + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together324 recipes

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

  4. Apricot + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together608 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  5. Ginger + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,154 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 raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (white wine, fig, apricot, ginger, sugar, lemon, vanilla):

  1. Peachbetter flavor fit
  2. Orangebetter flavor fit
  3. Pearbetter flavor fit
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against white wine, fig, apricot, ginger, sugar, lemon, vanilla. 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).