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Sweet Potato Caramel Meringue Pie

Sweet potato pie on a ginger snap crust, smothered in caramel sauce and topped with a sweet fluffy meringue.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 19 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and sweet potato match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 539 recipes mention both. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 10
Prep30 min
Cook38 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. Cinnamon + sweet potatotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together539 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Ginger + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6,380 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Vanilla + cinnamontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

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

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

  5. Ginger + sweet potatotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together306 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

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 ginger

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, sugar, evaporated milk, vanilla, cinnamon, sweet potato, egg):

  1. Nutmegbetter flavor fit
  2. Cardamombetter flavor fit
  3. Gingerthe original
  4. Cloveabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, sugar, evaporated milk, vanilla, cinnamon, sweet potato, 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).