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The Avocado Pear

A simple avocado dish seasoned with pepper, sea salt, vinegar or lime juice, optionally sweetened with sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Avocado and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,455 recipes. Both carry methyl cinnamate, which smells strawberry. The science ↓

The Avocado Pear

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the avocado in half and remove the seed.

  2. Scoop the pulp into a bowl.

Season and serve

  1. Season with pepper, coarse sea salt, and vinegar or lime juice.

  2. For a dessert option, sprinkle with sugar.

  3. Serve immediately.

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.

  1. Avocado + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,455 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  2. Pepper + vinegartop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Vinegar + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,806 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Avocado + vinegartop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together524 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Avocado + sugartop 32% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together321 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Avocado
Provides the creamy, fatty flesh that forms the body of the dish.
Vinegar or lime juice
Adds acidity that brightens the flavour and helps slow browning of the flesh.

Swap the avocado

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, vinegar, sugar):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Cherryfits better
  3. Limefits better
  4. Avocadothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, vinegar, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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