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Chestnut Soup with Spiced Cream

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and chestnut work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and 575 recipes mention both. Both carry acetaldehyde, which smells pungent, ethereal. The science ↓

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Contains: milk, 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. Cream + chestnuttop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together575 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetaldehyde (pungent, ethereal).

  2. Cinnamon + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together11,917 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Cinnamon + gingertop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6,380 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Nutmeg + gingertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,324 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  5. Cream + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

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

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 (cream, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, sugar, butter, celery):

  1. Carrotbetter flavor fit
  2. Sweet potatobetter flavor fit
  3. Potatobetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, sugar, butter, celery. 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).