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Brioche Toast with Caramelised Pears and Ginger Syrup

Brioche is the perfect bread for French toast. Top with caramelised pears and ginger syrup for an indulgent breakfast that is surprisingly easy to make.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Vanilla and brioche work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 70 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep30 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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

  1. Vanilla + briochetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together70 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Vanilla + peartop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together334 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Vanilla + sugartop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together35,031 recipes

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

  4. Maple syrup + briochetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together13 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Pear + gingertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together440 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

Vanilla and sugar 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 vanilla

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, maple syrup, sugar, butter, brioche, pear, ginger):

  1. Vanillathe original
  2. Appleabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, maple syrup, sugar, butter, brioche, pear, ginger. 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).