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Aunt Mamie's

"A cookie that is rolled around a nut filling and cut AFTER baking."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and milk match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 81,222 recipes mention both. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

The recipe

5 dozen (approx.)

Ingredients

Contains: 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. Butter + milktop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together81,222 recipes

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

  2. Cream cheese + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,746 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Cream cheese + walnuttop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together439 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Cream cheese + milktop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,395 recipes

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

  5. Butter + flourtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together122,858 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Butter and flour share little aroma chemistry, yet 122,858 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the walnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream cheese, butter, flour, sugar, milk):

  1. Almondbetter flavor fit
  2. Pecansabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Walnutthe original
  4. Peanutabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against cream cheese, butter, flour, sugar, milk. 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).