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Rhubarb Streusel Pie

The perfect way to round off Sunday lunch

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Rhubarb Streusel Pie

Why it works: Rhubarb and hazelnut share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 16 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Rhubarb Streusel Pie

Serves 6 - 8

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

726Calories
14 gProtein
24 gFat
111 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 10 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Ice Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Pastrynot in our table0
Rhubarbnot in our table0
Hazelnutnot in our table0

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

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

  1. Rhubarb + hazelnuttop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Rhubarb + cinnamontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together279 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  3. Cinnamon + hazelnuttop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together148 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Rhubarb + flourtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together670 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Flour + hazelnuttop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together464 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the hazelnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rhubarb, flour, sugar, cinnamon, butter, cream):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Pistachiofits about as well
  3. Hazelnutthe original
  4. Chestnutfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against rhubarb, flour, sugar, cinnamon, butter, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.