Name: Baked Apples Sweetened with Saccharin
Ingredients: 4 medium apples; saccharin to taste; 1 teaspoon cinnamon (optional); 1 tablespoon water

Why it works: Apple and cinnamon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,598 recipes. Both carry methyl cinnamate, which smells strawberry. The science ↓

Baked Apples Sweetened with Saccharin

Ingredients

4 medium apples
saccharin to taste
1 teaspoon cinnamon (optional)
1 tablespoon water

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point. The book gives no cooking times either; the times in the steps were added in transcription, so check for doneness rather than trusting the clock.

Prepare

Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).
Core the apples and place them in a baking dish.
Sprinkle saccharin and cinnamon inside each apple.
Add water to the bottom of the baking dish.

Bake

Bake for 20-25 minutes or until apples are tender.

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.

Explore the science

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.

Apple + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together5,598 recipes

Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

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

What each ingredient does

Apples: Provide the fruit that softens into a tender, cooked texture when baked.
Cinnamon: Adds warm aroma and flavor to the apples.
Saccharin: Adds sweetness to the apples without sugar.

“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.