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Blue Cheese-Bacon Focaccia

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Blue cheese and rosemary work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 36 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-heptanol, which smells bitter, floral. The science ↓

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Makes 12 servings

Ingredients

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. Blue cheese + rosemarytop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together36 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

  2. Olive + rosemarytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,489 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Pepper + rosemarytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,324 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Potato + rosemarytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together708 recipes

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

  5. Olive + potatotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,688 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (honey, flour, pepper, olive, blue cheese, rosemary):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  3. Potatothe original
  4. Carrotabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against honey, flour, pepper, olive, blue cheese, rosemary. 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).