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Cranberry Cherry Pie

"This is my favorite recipe to make for the holidays. It tastes too good to be this easy. Don't make your own dough? Just use dough mix or refrigerated crusts - it tastes just as delicious. Originally submitted to ThanksgivingRecipe.com."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Cherry and cranberry share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 48 recipes mention both. Both carry (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, melon. The science ↓

The recipe

8 servings

Ingredients

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

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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. Cherry + cranberrytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together48 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  2. Cranberry + orangetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together230 recipes

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

  3. Ginger + orangetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,833 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  4. Cherry + orangetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together689 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. Cherry + gingertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together293 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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 (cherry, cranberry, sauce, ginger, orange, milk, sugar):

  1. Peachbetter flavor fit
  2. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  3. Applebetter flavor fit
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cherry, cranberry, sauce, ginger, orange, milk, sugar. 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).