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Bavarian Town Clock Tower

This intricate biscuit tower is made up of four flavoured shortbreads – vanilla, lemon and lavender, orange and cardamom and chocolate – built up in layers, decorated with buttercream and with an iced clock tower at the top.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 21 ingredients
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Why it works: Cardamom and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 405 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Bavarian Town Clock Tower

Makes 1 biscuit tower
Prep2 hr
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1059Calories
21 gProtein
22 gFat
190 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 12 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Cardamom1 tsp ground (2g)6
Lavendernot in our table0
Flowernot in our table0
Hazelnutnot 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 bbcfood. 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. Cardamom + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together405 recipes

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

  2. Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

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

  3. Orange + cardamomtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together228 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Vanilla + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,371 recipes

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

  5. Vanilla + cardamomtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together237 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, sugar, flour, rice, vanilla, cardamom, lemon):

  1. Blueberryfits better
  2. Coconutfits about as well
  3. Figfits about as well
  4. Orangethe original

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