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Walnut/poppy Seed rolls.Beigli

This is a traditional Hungarian Christmas sweet, also made at Easter. Offered to visitors who have to give an opinion as to which of the two they prefer.

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 20 ingredients
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Why it works: Walnut and poppy seed share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 28 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-hexanal, which smells fruit. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 50

Ingredients

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

  • For the walnut filling
  • For the poppy seed filling

Directions

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

  1. Walnut + poppy seedtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together28 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  2. Butter + creamtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

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

  3. Flour + raisintop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,071 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Butter + poppy seedtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together257 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanol (resin, flower).

  5. Sugar + creamtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together43,437 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, butter, sugar, egg, cream, walnut, honey):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Figbetter flavor fit
  3. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, butter, sugar, egg, cream, walnut, honey. 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).