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Plum and Mascarpone Pie

This weekend was probably the last few days of summer in Seattle, and i wanted to take advantage of that so i decided to have a little BBQ with some friends.  My good friend Penny bought this Plum and Mascarpone Pie to the party, with plums from her back yard.  Not only did the…

By delishhh · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Plum and Mascarpone Pie

Why it works: Plum and vanilla match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 171 recipes. Both carry methyl cinnamate, which smells strawberry. The science ↓

Plum and Mascarpone Pie

1-9" pie

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

338Calories
3 gProtein
19 gFat
43 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 9 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Mascarpone2 tbsp (28g)120
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Plum1 medium (66g)30
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Pie Crustnot in our table0
Beannot 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.

By delishhh. 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Plum + vanillatop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together171 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  2. Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

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

  3. Vanilla + honeytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,262 recipes

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

  4. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  5. Plum + honeytop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together116 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

Sugar and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 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 lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (plum, sugar, vanilla, honey, cream):

  1. Pearfits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against plum, sugar, vanilla, honey, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.