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Strawberry Tiramisu

Slightly sour taste of the strawberry complements the creamy flavour of the tiramisu, creating dessert heaven!--- by my husband.

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 22 ingredients
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Why it works: Strawberry and honey match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 354 recipes mention both. Both carry 4-methoxybenzaldehyde, which smells sweet, anise. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, 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. Strawberry + honeytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together354 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  2. Strawberry + rumtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together105 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Cheese + honeytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together259 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  4. Rum + honeytop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together110 recipes

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

  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 lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (strawberry, sugar, rum, egg, cheese, cream, honey):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Pineapplebetter flavor fit
  3. Applebetter flavor fit
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against strawberry, sugar, rum, egg, cheese, cream, honey. 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).