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Rooibos Tea Custard with Caramelised Apple Recipe

A velvety baked cream, infused with rooibos tea and vanilla bean, then topped with caramelised apples.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Tea and apple match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 150 recipes mention both. Both carry 4-heptenal, which smells creamy, biscuit. The science ↓

The recipe

6 people
Prep45 min
Cook40 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By lovefood. 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. Tea + appletop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together150 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  2. Cream + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Vanilla + sugartop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together35,031 recipes

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

  4. Tea + lemontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together610 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Vanilla + appletop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,501 recipes

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

Vanilla and sugar share little aroma chemistry, yet 35,031 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 lemon

The recipe marks lemon as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, tea, vanilla, sugar, egg, apple, butter):

  1. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  2. Peachbetter flavor fit
  3. Blackberrybetter flavor fit
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, tea, vanilla, sugar, egg, apple, butter. 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).