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Puerto Rican Rum Cake

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Why it works: Vanilla and rum work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 728 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Puerto Rican Rum Cake

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 325°F.

  2. Grease and flour 10-inch tube pan.

  3. Sprinkle pecans over bottom of pan.

  4. Mix all cake ingredients together.

  5. Pour batter over pecans in pan.

  6. Bake one hour.

  7. Set on rack to cool.

  8. Invert on serving plate.

  9. Prick top.

  10. Drizzle and brush glaze evenly over top.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

437Calories
9 gProtein
39 gFat
5 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 8 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pecans1 oz (28g / ~19 halves)196
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Rum1/2 oz (15ml)32
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Cakenot in our table0
Puddingnot in our table0
Waternot 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.

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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. Vanilla + rumtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together728 recipes

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

  2. Pecans + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,691 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  3. Pecans + rumtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together71 recipes

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

  4. Pecans + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,280 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Vanilla + eggtop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together27,347 recipes

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

Vanilla and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 27,347 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the pecans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (vanilla, egg, rum):

  1. Almondfits about as well
  2. Chestnutfits about as well
  3. Pecansthe original
  4. Hazelnutfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against vanilla, egg, rum. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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