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Heather Honey Custard with Rhubarb and Elderflower

Equipment and preparation: For this recipe you will need a digital thermometer, a commercial vacuum pack machine and a temperature controlled water bath.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 20 ingredients
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Why it works: Honey and rhubarb work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and 75 recipes mention both. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

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

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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. Honey + rhubarbtop 14% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together75 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  2. Cream + sugartop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together43,437 recipes

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

  3. Rhubarb + lemontop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together546 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  4. Honey + lemontop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,706 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Egg + lemontop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together43,327 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

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 (cream, honey, egg, sugar, rhubarb):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, honey, egg, sugar, rhubarb. 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).