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Apricot Cheese Loaf

"A fruit-laden and slightly tart loaf. Excellent with tea or coffee."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Apricot Cheese Loaf

Why it works: Apricot and dates work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 35 recipes. Both carry anethole, which smells sweet, anise. The science ↓

Apricot Cheese Loaf

1 -9x5 inch loaf
Prep15 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

866Calories
22 gProtein
28 gFat
132 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Date1 date (24g) medjool66
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Apricot1 medium (35g)17
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
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 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. Apricot + datestop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together35 recipes

    Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).

  2. Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  3. Egg + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Apricot + cream cheesetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together74 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  5. Flour + datestop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together675 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Egg and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 106,462 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 dates

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Peachfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Datesthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apricot, cream cheese, sugar, egg, flour. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.