Name: Eggs a LA Teemontaine, Eed Wine Sauce
Ingredients: fruits, diced; whipped cream; pistachio ice cream; red wine; cinnamon; lemon slice; sugar; fecula (cornstarch); cold water

Why it works: Pistachio and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 201 recipes mention both. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Eggs a LA Teemontaine, Eed Wine Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Mix diced fruits with whipped cream and fill spherical molds (1 1/8 inches in diameter). Freeze and unmold.
Coat hinged tinned egg-shaped molds (½ cup each) with pistachio ice cream. Place the whipped cream sphere in the center, close, and clean off excess. Freeze and unmold.
For the red wine sauce, infuse cinnamon and a lemon slice in red wine. Sweeten and heat until it begins to whiten.
Thicken the wine with fecula diluted in cold water, strain, and let cool completely before serving.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

Pistachio + cinnamontop 5% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together201 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
Pistachio + lemontop 6% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together431 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
Cinnamon + lemontop 7% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together7,950 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together43,450 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Cinnamon + sugartop 10% of all pairs

Aroma overlaplow

Mentioned together30,779 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Cinnamon and sugar share little aroma chemistry, yet 30,779 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, pistachio, red wine, cinnamon, sugar):

Vanillabetter flavor fit
Pearbetter flavor fit
Figbetter flavor fit
Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, pistachio, red wine, cinnamon, sugar. 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).