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Mini Peach Pies

What could surpass a slice of fresh peach pie? A mini pie that’s sized for individual servings. These summery desserts are a snap to prepare in our electric pie maker.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Mini Peach Pies

Why it works: Peach and vanilla match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 558 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Mini Peach Pies

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By williamssonoma. 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. Peach + vanillatop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together558 recipes

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

  2. Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together35,032 recipes

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

  3. Lemon + peachtop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together947 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Lemon + vanillatop 15% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5,961 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Peach + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together2,308 recipes

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

Sugar and vanilla share little aroma chemistry, yet 35,032 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

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

  1. Apricotbetter flavor fit
  2. Blueberrybetter flavor fit
  3. Raspberrybetter flavor fit
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peach, sugar, vanilla, egg. 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).