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Praline Rum Sweet Potatoes Recipe

It is a variation of my sweet potato pie without the crust. Many of my friends including myself are in our sixties and we love our desserts especially the fattening...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Condensed milk and rum work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 50 recipes mention both. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

6 to 8 servings

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Condensed milk + rumtop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together50 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Cinnamon + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together11,917 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Vanilla + rumtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together727 recipes

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

  4. Vanilla + cinnamontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,287 recipes

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

  5. Rum + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together508 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the pecans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (condensed milk, egg, vanilla, rum, cinnamon, nutmeg):

  1. Almondabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Pecansthe original
  3. Walnutabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against condensed milk, egg, vanilla, rum, cinnamon, nutmeg. 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).