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Spiced Honey Flapjack Breakfast Sundae Recipe

This protein-packed, sweet breakfast is perfect for those with a hectic morning that require refuelling first thing.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Mango and fig share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 6 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

The recipe

2 people
Prep15 min
Cook35 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By lovefood. 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. Mango + figtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6 recipes

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

  2. Cinnamon + allspicetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Honey + figtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together227 recipes

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

  4. Honey + mangotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together167 recipes

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

  5. Cinnamon + figtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together613 recipes

    Shared aroma: cinnamyl acetate (sweet aromatic, cinnamon).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the allspice

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (honey, butter, oats, whey, cinnamon, mango, fig):

  1. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  2. Nutmegbetter flavor fit
  3. Cardamombetter flavor fit
  4. Allspicethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against honey, butter, oats, whey, cinnamon, mango, fig. 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).