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Sweet Potato Pudding with Pecan and Gingersnap Topping

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Sweet potato and yam share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 99 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 12 servings

Ingredients

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

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By epicurious. 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. Sweet potato + yamtop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together99 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Pecans + sweet potatotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together136 recipes

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

  3. Pumpkin + sweet potatotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together172 recipes

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

  4. Pecans + pumpkintop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together272 recipes

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

  5. Pumpkin + yamtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together26 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pecans, sugar, pumpkin, butter, sweet potato, yam, egg):

  1. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  2. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  3. Figbetter flavor fit
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pecans, sugar, pumpkin, butter, sweet potato, yam, egg. 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).