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Banana Pumpkin Bread

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Why it works: Banana and pumpkin work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 99 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

1 - 9x5 inch loaf pan
Prep20 min
Cook45 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, 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, mash the ripe bananas well. Whisk in the eggs, vegetable oil, pumpkin puree, honey and white sugar until smooth.

  3. In a separate bowl, whisk together the all-purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, pumpkin pie spice and ground cinnamon.

  4. Stir the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients just until no dry flour remains. Do not overmix.

  5. Fold in the raisins and walnut pieces if using, reserving a few for the top if you like.

  6. Scrape the batter into the prepared loaf pan and smooth the top. Sprinkle any reserved raisins or walnuts over the surface.

  7. Bake for about 45 to 55 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean and the top springs back when pressed.

  8. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then turn the loaf out onto a rack and let it 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. Banana + pumpkintop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together99 recipes

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

  2. Cinnamon + raisintop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5,390 recipes

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

  3. Pumpkin + cinnamontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together1,744 recipes

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

  4. Banana + honeytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together395 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  5. Honey + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,446 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the raisin

The recipe marks raisin as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (banana, egg, pumpkin, honey, sugar, flour, cinnamon):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Figbetter flavor fit
  3. Applebetter flavor fit
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against banana, egg, pumpkin, honey, sugar, flour, cinnamon. 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).