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Peaches with Lemon Verbena Cream

Some leaves deserve to infiltrate the dessert menu, like this lemon verbena, infused here in a whipped cream that can be spooned over just about anything, like peaches.

By bonappetit · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon verbena and sugar work together. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and 17 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-penten-3-one, which smells fish, pungent. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings

Ingredients

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

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By bonappetit. 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. Lemon verbena + sugartop 20% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together17 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Cream + sugartop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together43,437 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  4. Peach + buttertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together859 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  5. Peach + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together2,308 recipes

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

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