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Winter Crumble Tart

The delicious dessert is the perfect combination of tart and crumble filled to the brim with juicy apples and blackberries.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Winter Crumble Tart

Why it works: Flour and hazelnut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 464 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Winter Crumble Tart

Serves 8
Prep30 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1046Calories
28 gProtein
27 gFat
174 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Oat1/2 cup dry (40g)154
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Blackberry1 cup (144g)62
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Hazelnutnot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By bbcfood. 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Flour + hazelnuttop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together464 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  4. Oats + hazelnuttop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together58 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Apple + hazelnuttop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together76 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

Swap the apple

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Blueberryfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, butter, sugar, egg, oats, hazelnut, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.