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Teddy Christening Cake

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By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 27 ingredients
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Teddy Christening Cake

Why it works: Lemon and biscuit match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 697 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Teddy Christening Cake

Serves 45 - 50

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

683Calories
23 gProtein
47 gFat
42 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 10 ingredients. The other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Duck100g cooked with skin337
Biscuit1 medium (45g)166
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Apricot1 medium (35g)17
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Cakenot in our table0
Marzipannot in our table0
Icingnot in our table0
Rabbitnot 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. Lemon + biscuittop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together697 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Biscuit + rabbittop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together21 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Apricot + biscuittop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together109 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Lemon + apricottop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,098 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Lemon + rabbittop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together626 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the apricot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lemon, sugar, butter, biscuit, rabbit):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Vanillafits better
  4. Apricotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, sugar, butter, biscuit, rabbit. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.