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Fig and Blue Cheese Savouries

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Blue cheese and fig share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 15 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes about 36 hors d'oeuvres

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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By epicurious. 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. Blue cheese + figtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together15 recipes

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

  2. Butter + blue cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together226 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  3. Flour + buttertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together122,858 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Pepper + figtop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together202 recipes

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

  5. Blue cheese + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together370 recipes

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

Flour and butter share little aroma chemistry, yet 122,858 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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