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Fall Stuffed Cornish Hens with Squash, Herbs, and a Current White Wine Glaze Recipe

I love cornish hens and think that they are forgotten about at times. So, I tried to create a dish with a lot of my favorite fall flavors. Roast poultry, squash...

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Why it works: Thyme and white wine are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,495 recipes mention both. Both carry myrcene, which smells balsamic, herbaceous. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4 - 1 Cornish Hen per person

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By chow. 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. Thyme + white winetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,495 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  2. Thyme + rosemarytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,340 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Pepper + rosemarytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,324 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Pepper + thymetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together11,585 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Celery + thymetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,188 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the butternut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, pepper, celery, thyme, rosemary, cheese, rice):

  1. Beansbetter flavor fit
  2. Chickpeabetter flavor fit
  3. Walnutbetter flavor fit
  4. Butternutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, pepper, celery, thyme, rosemary, cheese, rice. 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).