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Easy Cheesecake

This quick, make-ahead dessert is perfect when having a night in just the two of you

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Easy Cheesecake

Why it works: Biscuit and lime share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 31 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Easy Cheesecake

Serves 2
Prep15 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

339Calories
10 gProtein
17 gFat
39 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Biscuit1 medium (45g)166
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By bbcgoodfood. 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. Biscuit + limetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together31 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Biscuit + cheesetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together252 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Biscuit + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,874 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  4. Cheese + limetop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together355 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Lime + sugartop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,332 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

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

Swap the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (biscuit, cheese, sugar):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Pearfits better
  4. Limethe original

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