Name: Pecan and Malaga Grapes
Ingredients: Malaga grapes; pecan nut meats; lettuce; French dressing or mayonnaise

Why it works: Grape and lettuce work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 349 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Pecan and Malaga Grapes

Ingredients

Malaga grapes
pecan nut meats
lettuce
French dressing or mayonnaise

Directions

Seed the Malaga grapes without separating the halves.
Insert a pecan nut meat into each grape.
Serve on a bed of lettuce with French dressing or mayonnaise.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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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.

Grape + lettucetop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together349 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).
Meat + lettucetop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together579 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).
Grape + meattop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together371 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).