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Hot Black Currant Ice Cream Topping Recipe

Not many American's are familiar with antioxidant rich black currants. Black Currants are wildly popular in the United Kingdom and Europe, and were actually banned...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Black currant and agave share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Hot Black Currant Ice Cream Topping Recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

70Calories
0 gProtein
0 gFat
18 gCarbs

Counts 2 of 4 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 2 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Agave1 tsp (7g)21
Black Currantnot in our table0
Waternot 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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Black currant + agavetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Sugar + agavetop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  3. Black currant + sugartop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together393 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

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

Swap the black currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, agave):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Blueberryfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Black currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, agave. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.