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lácteomantecoso · de crema dulce · lactónico · limpio · espeso

Mascarpone

on its own
1.0sour
2.0sweet
1.0savoury
0.0bitter
1.0umami
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1 of these 18 are wild — theory says yes, nobody has cooked them. why →

18 pairings for Mascarpone.

Fresa

common

Lactic fat and a berry that is already faintly dairy from its lactones.

Fat blunts the skin tannin, so the berry reads jammy instead of squeaky.

Guayaba

common

Bland sweet fat is a blank wall for a fruit that has too much aroma to share.

Bagel logic with better fat: sweet dairy blunts the salt.

Higo

common

Jammy sugar against flat sweet fat; the fig supplies all the acid there is.

Miel

common

Nothing here fights honey. That is the appeal and also the danger.

Vainilla

common

Milk lactones under vanillin, and the fat carries it. It ends up tasting more like itself.

Zest, not juice. Free acid will turn the whole thing grainy.

Prosciutto

uncommon

A salt cure needs a fat with no opinions. This one has none.

Cold fat holds truffle sulfides longer than warm cream manages to.

Bitter, tarry honey wants a bland fat that will not argue back.

Apricot-lactone flower on lactone fat. The same molecule, twice.