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Maple Bitters Recipe

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By chow · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Cardamom and maple syrup work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and 29 recipes mention both. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

15 oz.

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By chow. 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. Cardamom + maple syruptop 17% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together29 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Cinnamon + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,027 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  3. Cassia + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together116 recipes

    Shared aroma: cinnamyl acetate (sweet aromatic, cinnamon).

  4. Cinnamon + cardamomtop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,299 recipes

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

  5. Cassia + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together190 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cocoa

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (fennel, barley, vanilla, cassia, cinnamon, clove, cardamom):

  1. Almondbetter flavor fit
  2. Beansbetter flavor fit
  3. Pistachiobetter flavor fit
  4. Cocoathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against fennel, barley, vanilla, cassia, cinnamon, clove, cardamom. 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).