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Butternut Squash–Apple Cake with Ginger Streusel Recipe

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By chow · From Open Recipes · 17 ingredients
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Why it works: Pine and sunflower share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 35 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Butternut Squash–Apple Cake with Ginger Streusel Recipe

1 large cake - 8 servings

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1006Calories
26 gProtein
27 gFat
169 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 13 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Pine Nut1 oz (28g)191
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Cakenot in our table0
Sunflower Oilnot in our table0
Pumpkinnot 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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Pine + sunflowertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together35 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Ginger + sunflowertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together337 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Nuts + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together638 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

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

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

  5. Ginger + pinetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together58 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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 nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (ginger, sugar, pine, flour, sunflower, egg, vanilla):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Cashew nutfits better
  3. Chestnutfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against ginger, sugar, pine, flour, sunflower, egg, vanilla. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.