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Pine Nut & Ricotta Tart with Spiced Syrup

Rainy, cold weather is the perfect excuse for making this indulgent pud to share with friends

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Pine and syrup work together. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and 33 recipes mention both. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6

Ingredients

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

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By bbcgoodfood. 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. Pine + syruptop 18% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together33 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Butter + creamtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + syruptop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,841 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Butter + winetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together8,517 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  5. Sugar + creamtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together43,437 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, pine, nuts, sugar, egg, cream, syrup):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  3. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, pine, nuts, sugar, egg, cream, syrup. 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).