Name: Julia's Raspberry Cheesecake
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 250g tub of virtually fat free cottage cheese (eg Langley Farm from Asda); 500g tub of Total 2% (from Asda - Tesco don't have it - you can use 0% for less calories but not as creamy); 28g cornflour; 2 level tsp Canderel or similar; 1 sachet Hartley's raspberry sugar free jelly; 300g fresh raspberries; 2 McVities Digestive Lights (from new range 'lowest ever saturated fat); 4 McVities Rich Tea Lights (from new range 'lowest ever saturated fat); 28g Bran Flakes (for the same calories you can have 3 extra rich tea biscuits but not as healthy)

Why it works: Cottage cheese and raspberry share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 13 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-heptanol, which smells bitter, floral. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 8

Ingredients

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

For the cheese
250g tub of virtually fat free cottage cheese (eg Langley Farm from Asda)
500g tub of Total 2% (from Asda - Tesco don't have it - you can use 0% for less calories but not as creamy)
28g cornflour
2 level tsp Canderel or similar
1 sachet Hartley's raspberry sugar free jelly
300g fresh raspberries
For the crumb base
2 McVities Digestive Lights (from new range 'lowest ever saturated fat)
4 McVities Rich Tea Lights (from new range 'lowest ever saturated fat)
28g Bran Flakes (for the same calories you can have 3 extra rich tea biscuits but not as healthy)

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.

Cottage cheese + raspberrytop 10% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together13 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).
Raspberry + teatop 7% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together60 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-beta-ionone (floral).
Sugar + biscuittop 7% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together1,873 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).
Tea + biscuittop 9% of all pairs

Aroma overlaplow

Mentioned together107 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Raspberry + sugartop 11% of all pairs

Aroma overlaplow

Mentioned together3,052 recipes

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

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