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Cranberry Crumb Pie

"A cream cheese filling is covered with a festive cranberry layer and topped with a walnut crumb mixture. This is a great Thanksgiving dessert. It is sooo good!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Cranberry Crumb Pie

Why it works: Berry and cranberry work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 68 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Cranberry Crumb Pie

1 -- 9 inch pie
Prep20 min
Cook55 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

938Calories
24 gProtein
33 gFat
138 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 11 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Cranberry1 cup raw (100g)46
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Pie Crustnot in our table0
Berrynot in our table0
Saucenot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Berry + cranberrytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68 recipes

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

  2. Condensed milk + saucetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Lemon + berrytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together57 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Cream cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,747 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Lemon + cranberrytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together210 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream cheese, condensed milk, sugar, berry, cranberry, sauce, butter):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Blueberryfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream cheese, condensed milk, sugar, berry, cranberry, sauce, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.