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Bourbon Roasted Sweet Potato Pie with Gingersnap and Toasted Pecan Topping Recipe

This is the Ultimate Holiday Dessert! As a kid I rememeber the smell of mom's sweet potato casserole cooking in the oven, and a house full of friends and family...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Sweet potato and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 539 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Bourbon Roasted Sweet Potato Pie with Gingersnap and Toasted Pecan Topping Recipe

1 10 inch pie, 8 pieces

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1020Calories
32 gProtein
28 gFat
160 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 12 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Pecan1 half (4g)20
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Pumpkinnot in our table0
Pienot 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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Sweet potato + cinnamontop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together539 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Cinnamon + pumpkintop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,744 recipes

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

  3. Sweet potato + pumpkintop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together172 recipes

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

  4. Flour + cinnamontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,341 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Flour + sweet potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together627 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the pumpkin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, sweet potato, sugar, evaporated milk, egg, cinnamon, butter):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits about as well
  3. Coconutfits about as well
  4. Pumpkinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, sweet potato, sugar, evaporated milk, egg, cinnamon, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.