Name: Cream Filling
Ingredients: 1 cup chopped raisins; 1 cup chopped walnuts; 1 tablespoon grated coconut

Why it works: Walnut and coconut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 606 recipes. Both carry 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine, which smells cocoa, roasted. The science ↓

Cream Filling

Ingredients

1 cup chopped raisins
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 tablespoon grated coconut

Directions

Let the mixture cool.
Add the chopped raisins, chopped walnuts, and grated coconut.
Mix well until combined.

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.

Walnut + coconuttop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together606 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).
Raisin + walnuttop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together647 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Raisin + coconuttop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together183 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).