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Bacon Cheddar Chive Muffins

"Mm!!! I took care in making these into a perfect combination of flavors. A great muffin for breakfast, brunch, lunch, with soup or for a tasty snack. In our home they're gobbled up fast! Everybody LOVES these - You will too! Enjoy!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and chive work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and 467 recipes mention both. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

12 muffins
Prep20 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat (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. Sugar + chivetop 19% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together467 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Parmesan cheese + cheddar cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together592 recipes

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

  3. Garlic + chivetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,148 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Cheddar cheese + milktop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,963 recipes

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

  5. Chive + cheddar cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together218 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, sugar, chive, parmesan cheese, cheddar cheese, egg, milk):

  1. Cinnamonabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Nutmegabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Garlicthe original
  4. Celeryabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, sugar, chive, parmesan cheese, cheddar cheese, egg, 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).