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Bill's Blue Cheese Dressing

"This is the BEST I have ever tasted, but not for the fat conscious."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Mustard and blue cheese work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 102 recipes mention both. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

2 1/2 cups
Prep15 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, soy, fish (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. In a medium bowl, whisk together the sour cream, mayonnaise, Worcestershire sauce, dry mustard, garlic powder, salt and ground black pepper until smooth.

  2. Crumble the blue cheese into the bowl and fold it in gently, leaving some small chunks for texture.

  3. Cover the bowl and refrigerate for at least 1 hour so the flavors blend.

  4. Stir the dressing well before serving, adding a splash of water only if you want it thinner.

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. Mustard + blue cheesetop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together102 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Garlic + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together27,044 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Mustard + garlictop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Mustard + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together15,427 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Sauce + mustardtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,120 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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 (cream, sauce, mustard, pepper, blue cheese):

  1. Celerybetter flavor fit
  2. Tarragonabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, sauce, mustard, pepper, blue cheese. 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).