Why it works: Banana and grape work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 496 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓
Pea Pod White Wine
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the pea and banana base
Wash the pea pods.
Chop the pea pods into small pieces.
Place the pea pod fragments into a pan with the peeled and sliced bananas.
Add 2.25 liters of water and bring to a boil.
Let it simmer for 20 minutes.
Strain the mixture and leave to settle with a cover on.
Boil the sugar in 0.5 liter water until it clears.
Leave the sugar syrup to cool.
After 24 hours, strain the pea and banana liquor through a fine cloth.
Ferment and bottle
Pour the strained liquor into a demijohn.
Add the other ingredients, except the yeast, including the sugar syrup.
Top it up to the shoulder with lukewarm water.
Add the yeast and fit a bung and airlock.
Leave it to ferment, but be careful not to let heavy sediment build up.
If there's sediment building up, rack the wine.
Rack it as many times as necessary.
Bottle the wine when fermentation has stopped.
Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)
Counts 4 of 5 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume: 4 portions
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 cup (125g) all-purpose | 455 |
| Pea | 1/2 cup (72g) | 62 |
| Grape | 1/2 cup (76g) | 62 |
| Sugar | 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated | 49 |
| Tea | not in our table | 0 |
One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.
Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.
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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.
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Banana + grapetop 5% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together496 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
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Banana + sugartop 19% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together3,102 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).
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Sugar + grapetop 23% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together7,490 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Sugar
- Feeds the yeast during fermentation and provides the sweetness and alcohol in the wine.
- Ripe bananas
- Add body, aroma and fermentable sugars to the liquor.
- Pea pods
- Provide the main flavour and bulk of the liquor.
- Yeast
- Converts the sugars into alcohol and carbon dioxide during fermentation.
The step that matters
Leaving the wine to ferment without heavy sediment build-up. Heavy sediment from pulp and dead yeast can taint flavour and stall fermentation. Racking the wine off the sediment keeps the liquid clear and the fermentation clean.
Swap the grape
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (banana, sugar):
- Vanillafits better
- Figfits better
- Pineapplefits better
- Grapethe original
Fit is the average pairing score against banana, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
“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.
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