Why it works: Wine and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 31% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,581 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓
Strawberry Short Cake
Ingredients
Directions
Bake round layers of sponge cake, wine cake, or rich biscuit dough.
Ice the layers with water icing.
Arrange picked strawberries in circles over the icing.
Dust plenty of sugar on top of the strawberries.
Stack the layers on top of each other.
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 pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.
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Wine + sugartop 31% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together9,581 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
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