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Hazelnut Torte

I must have made this torte hundreds of times when I first moved to London — it was one of the first classic Italian dessert recipes that I learned to make and it's great!

By jamieoliver · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Hazelnut and ricotta cheese work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and 9 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-methylbutyraldehyde, which smells malty, chocolate. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 10

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By jamieoliver. 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. Hazelnut + ricotta cheesetop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together9 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

  2. Butter + poppy seedtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together257 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanol (resin, flower).

  3. Butter + flourtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together122,858 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Hazelnut + flourtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together453 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Orange + poppy seedtop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together74 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanol (resin, flower).

Butter and flour share little aroma chemistry, yet 122,858 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, hazelnut, sugar, egg, flour, ricotta cheese, poppy seed):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  3. Figbetter flavor fit
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, hazelnut, sugar, egg, flour, ricotta cheese, poppy seed. 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).