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Cookie Mix in a Jar IV

"Chocolate Covered Raisin 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 IV

Why it works: Raisin and flour match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 9,075 recipes mention both. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Cookie Mix in a Jar IV

2 1/2 dozen

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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. Raisin + flourtop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,075 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Sugar + chocolatetop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together15,404 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Sugar + raisintop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together12,481 recipes

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

  4. Chocolate + milktop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together9,128 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  5. Milk + flourtop 14% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Milk and flour share little aroma chemistry, yet 78,219 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 raisin

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

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, chocolate, milk, 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).