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Guava and Cream Cheese Pastry

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Guava and Cream Cheese Pastry

Why it works: Sugar and vanilla are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 35,032 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Guava and Cream Cheese Pastry

Makes 4 to 6 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

250Calories
8 gProtein
15 gFat
19 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 8 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Waternot in our table0
Guavanot in our table0
Pastrynot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

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

  2. Guava + lemontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27 recipes

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

  3. Vanilla + guavatop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  4. Cream cheese + vanillatop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,929 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  5. Vanilla + lemontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,961 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

Sugar and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the guava

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

  1. Blueberryfits better
  2. Raspberryfits better
  3. Pineapplefits better
  4. Guavathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, cream cheese, sugar, vanilla, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.