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Plum-Blackberry Cream Cheese Bread with Oat Streusel

Plums and blackberries and cream cheese and streusel, oh my.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 18 ingredients
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Plum-Blackberry Cream Cheese Bread with Oat Streusel

Why it works: Vanilla and plum match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 171 recipes. Both carry methyl cinnamate, which smells strawberry. The science ↓

Plum-Blackberry Cream Cheese Bread with Oat Streusel

Serves 8
Prep15 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1047Calories
29 gProtein
31 gFat
161 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 12 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Oat1/2 cup dry (40g)154
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Blackberry1 cup (144g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Plum1 medium (66g)30
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Toppingnot 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 tastykitchen. 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. Vanilla + plumtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together171 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  2. Oats + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,532 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  3. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

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

  5. Bread + oatstop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together258 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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 plum

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, flour, oats, butter, sugar, egg, vanilla):

  1. Figfits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Blueberryfits better
  4. Plumthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, flour, oats, butter, sugar, egg, vanilla. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.