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Cranberry Pumpkin Bread

"A deliciously moist and tangy cranberry pumpkin bread."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Cranberry and pumpkin work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 26 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

2 - 8x4 inch loaves
Prep15 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

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

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Heat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Grease two 8x4 inch loaf pans with a little of the vegetable oil.

  2. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, brown sugar, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and ground cloves.

  3. In a second bowl, whisk the egg substitute, whole cranberry sauce, pumpkin puree, remaining vegetable oil and orange zest until smooth, breaking up the cranberry sauce.

  4. Pour the wet mixture into the dry ingredients and stir just until no dry flour remains. Fold in the chopped walnuts.

  5. Divide the batter evenly between the two prepared pans and smooth the tops.

  6. Bake for 55 to 60 minutes, rotating the pans halfway through, until a toothpick inserted into the centers comes out clean.

  7. Cool the loaves in their pans for 10 minutes, then turn them out onto a wire rack and let cool completely before slicing.

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. Cranberry + pumpkintop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together26 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Cinnamon + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,027 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  3. Cinnamon + cranberrytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together116 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  4. Cinnamon + pumpkintop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together1,744 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Sugar + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together30,777 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Sugar and cinnamon share little aroma chemistry, yet 30,777 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 clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, sugar, cinnamon, egg, cranberry, sauce, pumpkin):

  1. Nutmegbetter flavor fit
  2. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  3. Cardamomabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, sugar, cinnamon, egg, cranberry, sauce, pumpkin. 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).