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Mixed Citrus "Marmalade"

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and orange match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 10,632 recipes mention both. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

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Makes about 2 cups

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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. Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,632 recipes

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

  2. Sugar + vanillatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together35,031 recipes

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

  3. Vanilla + orangetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,371 recipes

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

  4. Kumquat + orangetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together25 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  5. Kumquat + lemontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together19 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

Sugar and vanilla 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 kumquat

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, vanilla, lemon, orange):

  1. Blueberrybetter flavor fit
  2. Raspberrybetter flavor fit
  3. Blackberrybetter flavor fit
  4. Kumquatthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, vanilla, lemon, orange. 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).