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Crema De Papaya Recipe

A very popular and easy Brazilian dessert.

By chow · From Open Recipes · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Papaya and vanilla share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 23 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

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Contains: milk (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. Papaya + vanillatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together23 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Vanilla + black curranttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together35 recipes

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

  3. Vanilla + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together12,294 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  4. Cream + black curranttop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together67 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  5. Papaya + black curranttop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

Vanilla and cream share little aroma chemistry, yet 12,294 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the black currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (papaya, vanilla, cream):

  1. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  2. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  3. Pineapplebetter flavor fit
  4. Black currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against papaya, vanilla, cream. 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).