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Brown Butter Doughnut Muffins with Rhubarb & Custard

Sugar-dredged cupcakes with brown butter in the batter, and fruit compote and fresh vanilla custard as a filling

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Rhubarb and butter work together. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and 672 recipes mention both. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 12

Ingredients

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

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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. Rhubarb + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together672 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Vanilla + milktop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together19,175 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  3. Butter + milktop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together81,222 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

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

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

  5. Sugar + vanillatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together35,031 recipes

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

Sugar and vanilla share little aroma chemistry, yet 35,031 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