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Strawberry Rhubarb Crumble

A simple spring crumble - rhubarb, strawberry, and a splash of port wine with a buttery black pepper, pine nut and oat crumble top. Sounds a bit fancy, but really, it couldn't be easier to make.

By 101cookbooks · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Strawberry Rhubarb Crumble

Why it works: Spelt and flour match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 115 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Strawberry Rhubarb Crumble

Prep20 min
Cook40 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1031Calories
24 gProtein
35 gFat
153 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 11 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Pine Nut1 oz (28g)191
Oat1/2 cup dry (40g)154
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Strawberry1 cup (152g)49
Port Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Speltnot in our table0
Rhubarbnot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Spelt + flourtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together115 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Spelt + oatstop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together24 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Pine + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together687 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Spelt + pinetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, spelt, flour, pine, oats, sugar, pepper):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Cashew nutfits better
  3. Pistachiofits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, spelt, flour, pine, oats, sugar, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.