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Kc Masterpiece Bloody Barbie Recipe

This is a Bloody Mary variation using KC Masterpiece BBQ sauce instead of Worcestershire sauce. It is nice to use the same sauce in the drink to pair with the...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Horseradish and cherry tomato share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 23% of all ingredient pairs, and 1 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

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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. Horseradish + cherry tomatotop 23% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1 recipe

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Lemon + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,039 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Vodka + saucetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together72 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Lemon + celerytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,467 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Pepper + celerytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together16,001 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the horseradish

The recipe marks horseradish as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (vodka, sauce, lemon, pepper, celery, olive, cherry tomato):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Lettuceabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Horseradishthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against vodka, sauce, lemon, pepper, celery, olive, cherry tomato. 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).