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Peach & Raspberry Sunsets

A sparkling start to a dinner party

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Peach and champagne share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 26 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

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Serves 20
Prep20 min

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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. Peach + champagnetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together26 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Lemon + champagnetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together358 recipes

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

  3. Peach + lemontop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together947 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Peach + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together2,308 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Lemon + sugartop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together53,530 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Lemon and sugar share little aroma chemistry, yet 53,530 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 lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peach, sugar, champagne):

  1. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  2. Raspberrybetter flavor fit
  3. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peach, sugar, champagne. 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).