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Orange, Mint and Cherry Cookies

So good and easy to make. Fill up the cookie jar with these—the children (and adults) will love them.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Mandarin orange and mint share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 9 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 12
Prep10 min
Cook14 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Mandarin orange + minttop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9 recipes

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

  2. Flour + buttertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together122,858 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Egg + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together118,511 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Flour + eggtop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together104,138 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Sugar + buttertop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together98,096 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Flour and butter share little aroma chemistry, yet 122,858 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the mandarin orange

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

  1. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  2. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  3. Raspberrybetter flavor fit
  4. Mandarin orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, flour, egg, butter, mint. 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).