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Rye and Poppy Seed Biscuits with Beetroot Jelly with Crème Fraîche

These cute little canapés make a great vegetarian dish for a party. Prepare all the elements ahead and then it’s simply a matter of assembling just before you serve.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Rye and beetroot share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 10 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 10
Prep1 hr
Cook30 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Rye + beetroottop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Rye + wheattop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together404 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Butter + white winetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,039 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Wheat + poppy seedtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together30 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  5. Butter + poppy seedtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together257 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanol (resin, flower).

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