Name: Lucille's Smokehouse BBQ Apple Butter...or Very Close to It... Recipe
Yield: about 1 1/8 cup.
Ingredients: 1 cup unsalted butter(softened, I let it sit out for a while); 1/8 cup honey (you can add more if you like it sweeter); 1/2 tsp. cinnamon; 1 or 2 powdered apples(depending on size and taste, I used fuji, but delicious red, or any not tart apple should work) You can buy freeze dried apple fruit crisps like the comment below says and they work great as well.

Why it works: Cinnamon and apple are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,598 recipes. Both carry methyl cinnamate, which smells strawberry. The science ↓

Lucille's Smokehouse BBQ Apple Butter...or Very Close to It... Recipe

about 1 1/8 cup.

Ingredients

1 cup unsalted butter(softened, I let it sit out for a while)
1/8 cup honey (you can add more if you like it sweeter)
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1 or 2 powdered apples(depending on size and taste, I used fuji, but delicious red, or any not tart apple should work) You can buy freeze dried apple fruit crisps like the comment below says and they work great as well.

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

267Calories

1 gProtein

12 gFat

44 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 5 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Apple	1 medium (182g)	95
Honey	1 tbsp (21g)	64
Cinnamon	1 tsp ground (2.6g)	6
Fruit	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Cinnamon + appletop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together5,598 recipes

Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).
Honey + appletop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together569 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Honey + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,446 recipes

Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).
Butter + honeytop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,327 recipes

Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).
Butter + appletop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together8,706 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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