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Raspberry Cheesecake Pie Recipe

Topped with bright berries, this pie has a creamy fresh-tasting filling that is not overly sweet. The pie makes a very pretty looking dessert and it tastes just...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Cottage cheese and cream cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 77 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

The recipe

10 servings

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat (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. Cottage cheese + cream cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together77 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  2. Milk + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together19,175 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Cream cheese + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,934 recipes

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

  5. Milk + cream cheesetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,395 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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