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Melting Cheese with Poppy & Apricot Bread Wreath

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By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Apricot and cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 65 recipes mention both. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 8 - 10
Prep30 min
Cook55 min

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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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. Apricot + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together65 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Bread + cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,130 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Milk + cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,424 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Bread + milktop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together11,363 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Apricot + white winetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together106 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the walnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, apricot, poppy seed, milk, egg, cheese, white wine):

  1. Peasbetter flavor fit
  2. Almondabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Pecansabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Walnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, apricot, poppy seed, milk, egg, cheese, white wine. 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).