Name: Fresh Fruit Crisp
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 1 h
Yield: 6 - 8 servings
Ingredients: 2 cups blueberries; 2 cups blackberries; 3 ripe peaches, peeled and sliced; 1/4 cup sugar; 1/4 cup unbleached all-purpose flour; 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon; 1 cup rolled oats (I use Bob's Red Mill); 1/2 cup unbleached all-purpose flour; 1/2 cup light brown sugar; 1/2 cup sugar; Pinch of salt; 1/2 cup (1 stick) cold unsalted butter, cut into small pieces; Vanilla ice cream, for serving (preferably homemade)

Why it works: Peach and vanilla match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 558 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

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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.

Peach + vanillatop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together558 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Cinnamon + vanillatop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together5,287 recipes

Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).
Oats + vanillatop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,532 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
Cinnamon + oatstop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,394 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
Peach + cinnamontop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together625 recipes

Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, flour, cinnamon, oats, butter, vanilla, cream):

Blueberryfits better
Raisinfits better
Figfits better
Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, flour, cinnamon, oats, butter, vanilla, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Oat	1/2 cup dry (40g)	154
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Blueberry	1 cup (148g)	84
Blackberry	1 cup (144g)	62
Peach	1 medium (150g)	59
Ice Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Vanilla	1 tsp extract (4ml)	12
Cinnamon	1 tsp ground (2.6g)	6
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

Fresh Fruit Crisp