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Corn Bread Dressing with Chestnuts

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Why it works: Corn and chestnut work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 32 recipes mention both. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

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

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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. Corn + chestnuttop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together32 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Celery + carrottop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Celery + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together16,001 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Carrot + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,555 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Corn + carrottop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together793 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (corn, bread, turkey, olive, celery, carrot, pepper):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Potatobetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against corn, bread, turkey, olive, celery, carrot, pepper. 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).