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Cranberry-Black Cherry Gelatin Salad

"This is a great gelatin salad - even people who don't like cranberries will love this! Originally submitted to ThanksgivingRecipe.com."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 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

10 servings

Ingredients

Contains: milk, tree nuts (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 + walnuttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together51 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Cherry + walnuttop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together347 recipes

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

  4. Cream + saucetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,786 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Cream + walnuttop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together1,981 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetaldehyde (pungent, ethereal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the walnut

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

  1. Almondabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Walnutthe original
  3. Beansabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Pistachioabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against cherry, cream, cranberry, sauce. 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).