Name: Buttery Swiss Cheese Canapes
Prep time: 6 min
Cook time: 10 min
Yield: 10
Ingredients: 1 pound Shredded Swiss Cheese; 1 cup Sweet Cream Butter, Room Temperature; ¼ cups Diced Green Onion (scallions); 2 Tablespoons Yellow Or Brown Mustard; 2 Tablespoons Poppy Seeds; 1 loaf 16 Ounce Size, French Bread (from Grocery Bakery Dept.)

Why it works: Onion and mustard match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,259 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Buttery Swiss Cheese Canapes

Serves 10

Prep6 min

Cook10 min

Ingredients

1 pound Shredded Swiss Cheese
1 cup Sweet Cream Butter, Room Temperature
¼ cups Diced Green Onion (scallions)
2 Tablespoons Yellow Or Brown Mustard
2 Tablespoons Poppy Seeds
1 loaf 16 Ounce Size, French Bread (from Grocery Bakery Dept.)

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

807Calories

24 gProtein

26 gFat

117 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Swiss Cheese	1 oz (28g)	108
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Green Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Mustard	1 tsp (5g) yellow	3
Poppy Seed	not in our table	0

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.

Onion + mustardtop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together9,259 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together27,232 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together41,516 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Swiss cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together413 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Onion + poppy seedtop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together214 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the poppy seed

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (swiss cheese, cream, butter, onion, mustard, bread):

Garlicfits better
Capersfits better
Celeryfits better
Poppy seedthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against swiss cheese, cream, butter, onion, mustard, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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