Earl grey tea + Pickled sakura blossom
Earl grey tea and pickled sakura blossom are a complementary pair — they appear together in recipes often (cooc 0.33) despite differing aroma chemistry (chem 0.32). The combination works through contrast rather than similarity. Both sit inside the "Sweet fruits spirits and liqueurs" mode.
What do these scores mean?
Cooks-with (technical name: Cooc) measures how often the two ingredients appear in the same dish across 4M recipes. Tastes-like (Chem) measures how much aroma chemistry they share via FlavorDB. Blended (Core) combines both. All are cosine similarities in 300-D space — practical ranges differ per axis, so see the per-row context to read them.
Ingredients that go well with both earl grey tea and pickled sakura blossom — candidates for completing the dish.
How this is ranked
Each candidate scores against both ingredients in the recipe co-occurrence embedding. We sort by the worse of the two scores, so the result fits the weaker partner — not just one of them.
Clusters that contain both ingredients — click through to see everything in the mode.
- Cooks withSweet fruits spirits and liqueurs
- Cooks withSweet dessert and tea confections
- BlendedEast Asian sweet grains and seeds
- BlendedSweet fruity dessert fruits and florals
- BlendedSweet confections and dessert bases
- Tastes likeSweet confectionery and dessert beverages
- Tastes likeEast Asian confectionery and sweet baking ingredients
- Tastes likeConfectionery and pastry components