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Lemon-Thyme Cranberry Sauce

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Cranberry and thyme share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 43 recipes mention both. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

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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. Cranberry + thymetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together43 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Thyme + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,973 recipes

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

  3. Berry + cranberrytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together68 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  4. Berry + lemontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together57 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Cranberry + lemontop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together210 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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