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Glazed Lemon Muffins

By biggirlssmallkitchen · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and safflower share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 47 recipes mention both. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 10

Ingredients

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

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By biggirlssmallkitchen. 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. Lemon + safflowertop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together47 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  2. Wheat + milktop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,416 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  3. Almond + safflowertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together15 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Flour + almondtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together8,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Wheat + almondtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together264 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-methylbutanol (malty, whiskey).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the safflower

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, flour, wheat, lemon, egg, almond, milk):

  1. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  2. Nutmegbetter flavor fit
  3. Gingerabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Safflowerthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, flour, wheat, lemon, egg, almond, milk. 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).