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Cookie Mix in a Jar XI

"Orange Slice Cookie mix in a jar with tag attached with directions on how to prepare the mix. These make wonderful gifts to give any time of year and also for wedding favors, hostess gifts, baby showers or take to a cookie exchange and make sure to bake some up so people know what they taste like to. Store in a cool dry place away from a heat source so condensation and clumping does not occur. Enjoy!"

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Cookie Mix in a Jar XI

Why it works: Sugar and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and 92,116 recipes mention both. Both carry phenylacetaldehyde, which smells hawthorne, honey. The science ↓

Cookie Mix in a Jar XI

2 1/2 dozen

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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. Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  2. Sugar + orangetop 20% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together19,212 recipes

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

  3. Flour + orangetop 21% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together6,821 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Sugar and orange share little aroma chemistry, yet 19,212 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 orange

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

  1. Raisinbetter flavor fit
  2. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  3. Blueberrybetter flavor fit
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, flour. 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).