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ComporTe or Apples, the PoRTUGUESE WAy

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and cinnamon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 5,598 recipes mention both. Both carry methyl cinnamate, which smells strawberry. The science ↓

ComporTe or Apples, the PoRTUGUESE WAy

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Recipe from a historical cookbook.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Apple + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5,598 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  2. Lemon + cinnamontop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together7,950 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Sugar + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together30,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Apple + curranttop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together1,918 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  5. Apple + lemontop 14% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together7,551 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

Sugar and cinnamon share little aroma chemistry, yet 30,779 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apple, sugar, lemon, cinnamon):

  1. Orangebetter flavor fit
  2. Pearbetter flavor fit
  3. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apple, sugar, lemon, cinnamon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).