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Apple Cheese Quick Bread

"Apples, cheese and walnuts make this bread a moist and yummy treat. It tastes great with cream cheese on it!"

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Why it works: Apple and swiss cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 18 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

The recipe

1 - 9x5 inch loaf
Prep30 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

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

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan.

  2. In a large bowl, beat the softened butter, white sugar and honey until creamy. Beat in the eggs one at a time.

  3. In a separate bowl, whisk together the whole wheat flour, all-purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.

  4. Stir the dry ingredients into the butter mixture just until combined. Do not overmix.

  5. Fold in the shredded apples, shredded Swiss cheese and chopped walnuts until evenly distributed.

  6. Spread the batter evenly into the prepared loaf pan and smooth the top.

  7. Bake for 55 to 65 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

  8. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a rack and cool completely before slicing.

By allrecipes. 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.

  1. Apple + swiss cheesetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together18 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  2. Butter + swiss cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together412 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Honey + appletop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together567 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Honey + wheattop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together346 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  5. Butter + honeytop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,308 recipes

    Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).

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