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Cranberry Salad VI

"This is a creamy and sweet cranberry salad with pecans."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Cranberry Salad VI

Why it works: Cranberry and vanilla share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 67 recipes. Both carry 4-methoxybenzaldehyde, which smells sweet, anise. The science ↓

Cranberry Salad VI

8 servings
Prep15 min
Cook6 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

531Calories
11 gProtein
41 gFat
32 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pecans1 oz (28g / ~19 halves)196
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Cranberry1 cup raw (100g)46
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
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.

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 + vanillatop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together67 recipes

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

  2. Pecans + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,691 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  3. Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

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

  4. Cream cheese + pecanstop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together465 recipes

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

  5. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

Sugar and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the cranberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream cheese, sugar, sauce, pecans, cream, vanilla):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Raspberryfits better
  4. Cranberrythe original

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