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Gluten Free Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins Recipe

We will be making these gluten free lemon poppy seed muffins at my class on March 17th at the Culinary School of the Rockies. I am sharing the recipe here for...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Coconut and poppy seed work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 50 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-hexanol, which smells resin, flower. The science ↓

The recipe

about 24 mini-muffins

Ingredients

Contains: egg, wheat (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. Coconut + poppy seedtop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together50 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanol (resin, flower).

  2. Coconut + agavetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together162 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Flour + agavetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together213 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Lemon + poppy seedtop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together166 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Flour + eggtop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together104,138 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and egg share little aroma chemistry, yet 104,138 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the coconut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, egg, agave, lemon, poppy seed):

  1. Limebetter flavor fit
  2. Orangebetter flavor fit
  3. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  4. Coconutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, egg, agave, lemon, poppy seed. 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).