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Cinnamon Pear Frozen Yogurt

"This luscious dessert has the delicious flavor of spiced apple cider and gingerbread. A refreshing dessert summer or winter."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Pear and yogurt work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 85 recipes mention both. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, fruity. The science ↓

The recipe

1 quart
Prep5 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk (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. Drain the pear halves well and discard the syrup, then pat the pears dry with paper towels.

  2. Place the drained pears, vanilla yogurt, white sugar, ground cinnamon and ground allspice in a blender or food processor and blend until completely smooth.

  3. Refrigerate the mixture for at least 30 minutes until it is well chilled, about 40°F (4°C) or colder.

  4. Churn the chilled mixture in an ice cream maker following the manufacturer's directions, about 20 to 25 minutes, until thick and soft-serve textured.

  5. If you have no ice cream maker, pour the mixture into a shallow metal pan, freeze for 30 minutes, then stir vigorously and repeat every 30 minutes for 3 to 4 hours until firm.

  6. Transfer the frozen yogurt to a lidded freezer container, press a piece of parchment onto the surface, and freeze for at least 2 hours before scooping.

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. Pear + yogurttop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together85 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  2. Cinnamon + allspicetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Pear + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together334 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  4. Vanilla + cinnamontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,287 recipes

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

  5. Vanilla + sugartop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together35,031 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

Vanilla and sugar share little aroma chemistry, yet 35,031 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

Flavor stand-ins for the allspice

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pear, vanilla, yogurt, sugar, cinnamon):

  1. Cardamombetter flavor fit
  2. Clovebetter flavor fit
  3. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  4. Allspicethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pear, vanilla, yogurt, sugar, 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).