Name: Coated Cherries
Ingredients: large candied cherries; rose colored bon-bon cream; chopped pistachio nuts

Why it works: Pistachio and nuts match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 425 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Coated Cherries

Ingredients

large candied cherries
rose colored bon-bon cream
chopped pistachio nuts

Directions

Coat large candied cherries with rose colored bon-bon cream.
Sprinkle chopped pistachio nuts on top or leave them plain if desired.
Serve as a delicious bon-bon.

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.

Pistachio + nutstop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together425 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
Rose + pistachiotop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together135 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
Cream + pistachiotop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together634 recipes

Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).
Cream + nutstop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together886 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).
Rose + nutstop 29% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together47 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).