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Apple & Blueberry Slab Pie with Ginger Crust

Apple & Blueberry Slab Pie with Ginger Crust.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and ginger match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,418 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 12
Prep45 min
Cook45 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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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. Apple + gingertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,418 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Sugar + vanillatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together35,031 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Apple + vanillatop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,501 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Beans + gingertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together609 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Apple + buttertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8,692 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-undecalactone (peach, sweet).

Sugar and vanilla share little aroma chemistry, yet 35,031 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 beans

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

  1. Almondbetter flavor fit
  2. Chestnutbetter flavor fit
  3. Cocoaabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Beansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, apple, vanilla, ginger, flour, butter, 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).