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Spiked Apple Galette Recipe

This gorgeous free-form tart is packed with sweet cinnamon-spiked apples wrapped in a buttery, flaky crust. For double the apple flavor, it gets bathed in a reduction...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and apple brandy share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 38 recipes mention both. Both carry hexanol, which smells green, fruity. The science ↓

The recipe

8 to 10 servings (1 11-inch galette)

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By chow. 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. Apple + apple brandytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together38 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanol (green, fruity).

  2. Mace + allspicetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

  3. Lemon + allspicetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,083 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Butter + appletop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8,692 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-undecalactone (peach, sweet).

  5. Flour + buttertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together122,858 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and butter share little aroma chemistry, yet 122,858 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 mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, sugar, butter, egg, apple, lemon, allspice):

  1. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  2. Nutmegbetter flavor fit
  3. Cardamombetter flavor fit
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, sugar, butter, egg, apple, lemon, allspice. 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).