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Apple Mincemeat Crumble

"This is an excellent, festive twist on an old favorite!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Apple Mincemeat Crumble

Why it works: Flour and brazil nut share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Apple Mincemeat Crumble

6 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

867Calories
20 gProtein
16 gFat
163 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 8 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Oat1/2 cup dry (40g)154
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Pie Fillingnot in our table0
Brazil Nutnot 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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Flour + brazil nuttop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together43 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Apple + oatstop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together518 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Oats + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,939 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Lemon + brazil nuttop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together44 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lemon, flour, brazil nut, sugar, oats, butter):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Raisinfits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, flour, brazil nut, sugar, oats, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.