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Spiced Rum Recipe

Fashioning your own spiced rum is so easy that there is really no reason to buy the artificially flavored slosh you find at the store. Just combine some high...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Star anise and allspice share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 30 recipes mention both. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

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1 (750 ml) bottle

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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. Star anise + allspicetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together30 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Cinnamon + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,027 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  3. Clove + allspicetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together7,711 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Cinnamon + star anisetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together312 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

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

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cocoa

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rum, vanilla, cinnamon, star anise, clove, allspice, orange):

  1. Almondbetter flavor fit
  2. Walnutbetter flavor fit
  3. Beansbetter flavor fit
  4. Cocoathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rum, vanilla, cinnamon, star anise, clove, allspice, orange. 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).