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Gingerbread Apple Crisp

Gluten free and Paleo diet friendly Gingerbread Apple Crisp recipe made with juicy baked apples, sweet almond flour topping and warming spices.

By elanaspantry · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 5,586 recipes mention both. Both carry methyl cinnamate, which smells strawberry. The science ↓

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Ingredients

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

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By elanaspantry. 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. Apple + cinnamontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,586 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  2. Cinnamon + gingertop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6,380 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Cinnamon + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  4. Almond + cinnamontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,514 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Apple + honeytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together567 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the pecans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apple, almond, flour, cinnamon, ginger, honey, vanilla):

  1. Flaxseedbetter flavor fit
  2. Cashew nutbetter flavor fit
  3. Hazelnutbetter flavor fit
  4. Pecansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apple, almond, flour, cinnamon, ginger, honey, vanilla. 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).