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Champagne Summer Shortcake Recipe

A fantastic summer shortcake recipe crowned with perfect little gems of summer fruit, glistening with a honey-and-champagne syrupy glaze.

By 101cookbooks · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Honey and champagne share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 15 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes about 12 medium-sized shortcakes.

Ingredients

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

  • Shortcakes
  • Honey-champagne syrup
  • Summer fruit

Directions

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By 101cookbooks. 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. Honey + champagnetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together15 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Honey + figtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together227 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Milk + honeytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,333 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  5. Milk + figtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,025 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the fig

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

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  3. Peachabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Figthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, butter, sugar, milk, egg, honey, champagne. 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).