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Chocolate & Ginger Baked Peaches

Life's peaches and cream with chocolate and ginger baked peaches

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Peach and chocolate work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 88 recipes mention both. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6

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. Peach + chocolatetop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together88 recipes

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

  2. Ginger + orangetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,833 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  3. Wine + white winetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together181 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  4. Peach + orangetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together385 recipes

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

  5. Peach + gingertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together218 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peach, biscuit, chocolate, ginger, egg, wine, white wine):

  1. Apricotabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Raspberryabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Appleabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peach, biscuit, chocolate, ginger, egg, wine, white wine. 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).