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Chocolate and Raspberry Pavlova with Sheeps’ Milk and Hazelnut Ice Cream

This dessert would be the perfect ending for a special meal. You can make just one component of the recipe for something more low-key.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 36 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 29,395 recipes mention both. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep30 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Cream + milktop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together29,395 recipes

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

  2. White wine + lemontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3,764 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  3. White wine + vinegartop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,123 recipes

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

  4. Sugar + creamtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together43,437 recipes

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

  5. Milk + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together19,048 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, sugar, white wine, vinegar, cream, milk, hazelnut):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  3. Raspberrybetter flavor fit
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, sugar, white wine, vinegar, cream, milk, hazelnut. 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).