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Sour Cherry and Madagascan Chocolate Jalousie Recipe

A fancy pudding, ideal for Christmas dinner parties. It's a puff pastry pie, with a creamy chocolate, cherry and almond filling.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Chocolate and cherry brandy work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 22 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

The recipe

6 people
Prep20 min
Cook50 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By lovefood. 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. Chocolate + cherry brandytop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together22 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

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

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

  3. Almond + chocolatetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,733 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  4. Chocolate + creamtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5,463 recipes

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

  5. Almond + buttertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,198 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

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