Coffee Junket

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 + strawberrytop 1% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together1,385 recipes

   Shared aroma: p-vinylguaiacol (spicy, fruity).

2. Sugar + syruptop 6% of all pairs
   Smell alikestrong
   Cooked together5,842 recipes

   Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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

4. Coffee + vanillatop 9% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together1,391 recipes

   Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

5. Vanilla + syruptop 12% of all pairs
   Smell alikelow
   Cooked together1,855 recipes

   Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Sugar

Adds sweetness to balance the bitterness of the strong coffee.

Strong coffee

Provides the main liquid and the coffee flavour of the junket.

Swap the strawberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, coffee, vanilla, syrup):

1. Figfits about as well
2. Peachfits about as well
3. Bananafits about as well
4. Strawberrythe original

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