Name: Broiled Summer Fruit with Anise-Honey Butter Recipe
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 1/4 pound softened unsalted butter; 1 tablespoon ground anise seed; 1/4 cup honey; The inner scrapings of 1 split vanilla bean; An assortment of summer fruit, including quartered figs; sliced peaches, plums, and apricots; pitted and halved cherries; diced mango and papaya; sliced red bananas; halved strawberries; and whole raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries

Why it works: Fig and mango share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 6 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings

Ingredients

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

1/4 pound softened unsalted butter
1 tablespoon ground anise seed
1/4 cup honey
The inner scrapings of 1 split vanilla bean
An assortment of summer fruit, including quartered figs; sliced peaches, plums, and apricots; pitted and halved cherries; diced mango and papaya; sliced red bananas; halved strawberries; and whole raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries

Directions

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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.

Fig + mangotop 5% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together6 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Plum + apricottop 1% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together281 recipes

Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).
Peach + apricottop 1% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together341 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Peach + plumtop 1% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together161 recipes

Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).
Fig + apricottop 2% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together97 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the plum

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, anise, honey, vanilla, fig, peach, apricot):

Pearabout as good a flavor fit
Appleabout as good a flavor fit
Plumthe original
Strawberryabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, anise, honey, vanilla, fig, peach, apricot. 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).

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