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Cranberry Gelatin Mold

"This is a great substitute for plain cranberries at holiday dinners. It can be made low-fat by omitting the walnuts and using low-fat cream cheese and whipped topping. Enjoy!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Cranberry Gelatin Mold

Why it works: Cranberry and walnut share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 51 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Cranberry Gelatin Mold

12 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

264Calories
4 gProtein
13 gFat
40 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 7 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Pineapple1 cup chunks (165g)82
Cranberry1 cup raw (100g)46
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Saucenot in our table0
Toppingnot 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.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Cranberry + walnuttop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together51 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Cranberry + limetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together100 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Cranberry + pineappletop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together92 recipes

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

  4. Lime + pineappletop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together469 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Lime + walnuttop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together115 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cranberry, sauce, cream cheese, pineapple, walnut):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Pearfits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Limethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cranberry, sauce, cream cheese, pineapple, walnut. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.