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Strawberry Freeze

A quick and easy, frozen dessert with crunchy pecan crumbs and creamy, strawberry filling! It’s great for kids and it’s healthy!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Strawberry Freeze

Why it works: Wheat and pecans work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 90 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Strawberry Freeze

Serves 12
Prep5 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

753Calories
21 gProtein
21 gFat
121 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 8 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Strawberry1 cup (152g)49
Pecan1 half (4g)20
Wheatnot in our table0
Pastrynot 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 tastykitchen. 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. Wheat + pecanstop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together90 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Butter + pecanstop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,416 recipes

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

  3. Wheat + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,373 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Butter + wheattop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,002 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the strawberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, wheat, flour, sugar, pecans, egg):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Strawberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, wheat, flour, sugar, pecans, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.