Name: Raspberry Cream Drops
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons raspberry juice or 4 teaspoons raspberry jam; almond paste (to taste); confectioners' sugar (as needed); almond extract (1-2 drops)

Why it works: Raspberry and almond match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 552 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Raspberry Cream Drops

Ingredients

2 teaspoons raspberry juice or 4 teaspoons raspberry jam
almond paste (to taste)
confectioners' sugar (as needed)
almond extract (1-2 drops)

Directions

Mix raspberry juice or jam with almond paste until well combined.
Gradually work in confectioners' sugar until a dull, grayish pink paste forms.
Shape the mixture into small balls.
Prepare cream, either white or pale pink, and flavor with almond extract.
Drop the balls into the prepared cream.

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.

Raspberry + almondtop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together552 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
Almond + sugartop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together15,679 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).
Raspberry + sugartop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together3,101 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).