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Bacon with Brown Sugar and Cardamom

Seasoning bacon with brown sugar and fragrant cardamom and baking it in the oven puts this breakfast mainstay over the top. Cardamom boasts warm, spicy sweetness with hints of ginger, nutmeg and pepper. For the best flavor, lightly crush whole cardamom pods and then whirl them, along with the seeds inside, in an electric spice grinder until finely ground.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and cardamom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,044 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-penten-3-one, which smells fish, pungent. The science ↓

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By williamssonoma. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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. Sugar + cardamomtop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together1,044 recipes

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

  2. Cardamom + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together832 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Sugar + peppertop 22% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together19,398 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Sugar and pepper share little aroma chemistry, yet 19,398 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