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Goat's Cheese & Cranberry Tartlets

These vegetarian tartlets make great finger food for a festive drinks party

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Cranberry and cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and 39 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 20-24

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Cranberry + cheesetop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together39 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  2. Thyme + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,641 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  3. Cranberry + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together127 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Cheese + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,530 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  5. Cranberry + thymetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together43 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the thyme

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, cranberry, cheese, olive):

  1. Rosemaryabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Thymethe original
  3. Parsleyabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, cranberry, cheese, olive. 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).