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Crostini of d'Affinois and Drunken Figs Recipe

The black mission fig tree is one of my favorites in the garden, and this fall it is bearing a bountiful harvest … luckily my family loves figs! It’s adjacent...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Fig and sherry share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 85 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6

Ingredients

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

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Fig + sherrytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together85 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Bread + cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,130 recipes

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

  3. Bread + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together999 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Olive + cheesetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,530 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  5. Fig + cheesetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together85 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the mint

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, olive, fig, cheese, sherry):

  1. Thymebetter flavor fit
  2. Rosemaryabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Pepperabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Mintthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, olive, fig, cheese, sherry. 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).