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Currant-Almond Yogurt Muffins Recipe

As much as I love being a CSA member, some weeks I get things that have minimal utility. One of my fruit deliveries last summer was a quart of fresh currants...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and yogurt work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 683 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

6 regular muffins or 18 mini muffins

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Almond + yogurttop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together683 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Milk + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together19,175 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  3. Milk + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together81,222 recipes

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

  4. Flour + almondtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together8,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Almond + vanillatop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,961 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the fennel

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, almond, yogurt, milk, butter, egg, vanilla):

  1. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  2. Nutmegbetter flavor fit
  3. Peppermintabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Fennelthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, almond, yogurt, milk, butter, egg, vanilla. 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).