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Lemon Sponge with Poached Rhubarb, Raspberries and Lemon Yoghurt

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 30 ingredients
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Why it works: Raspberry and rhubarb share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 44 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol, which smells clove, smoky. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Cook2 hr

Ingredients

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

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By bbcfood. 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. Raspberry + rhubarbtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together44 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  2. Almond + rhubarbtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together117 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Butter + creamtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Almond + raspberrytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together547 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

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