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Cherry Crumble

"This dessert is great served warm with vanilla ice cream."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Cherry Crumble

Why it works: Butter and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Cherry Crumble

1 crumble
Prep15 min
Cook45 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

847Calories
20 gProtein
16 gFat
157 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Oat1/2 cup dry (40g)154
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cherry1 cup (138g)87
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Pie Fillingnot 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. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Butter + oatstop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,939 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Oats + cherrytop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together152 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  5. Flour + cherrytop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,623 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 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 cherry

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Blueberryfits better
  4. Cherrythe original

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