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Persimmon and Pomegranate Tea Cakes

Moist little sponge cakes flavored with winter fruits.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Persimmon and pomegranate share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 8 recipes mention both. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 12
Prep2 hr
Cook12 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat, tree nuts (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. Persimmon + pomegranatetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

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

  3. Almond + flourtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together8,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Almond + vanillatop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,961 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Persimmon + vanillatop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together17 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

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 almond

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

  1. Almondthe original
  2. Walnutabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, persimmon, egg, sugar, vanilla, butter, pomegranate. 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).