Name: The Abogato Pear
Ingredients: Abogato pears; salt; pepper; vinegar; sugar

Why it works: Pepper and vinegar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,814 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

The Abogato Pear

Ingredients

Directions

Cut the Abogato pears lengthwise.
Remove the large seeds from the pears.
Serve the pear meat with salt, pepper, vinegar, or sugar according to your taste.

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.

Pepper + vinegartop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together27,814 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Vinegar + sugartop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together20,806 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Pear + vinegartop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together380 recipes

Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).
Pear + sugartop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,079 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).
Pear + peppertop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together320 recipes

Shared aroma: butanol (wine).