Name: Banberry Tarts
Ingredients: one cup sugar; one cup seeded raisins chopped; one tablespoon water; one lemon; one cracker rolled fine

Why it works: Sugar and raisin are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 12,481 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Banberry Tarts

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

Grate the rind of one lemon.
Juice one lemon.
Mix the grated rind, lemon juice, one cup sugar, one cracker rolled fine, and one cup seeded raisins chopped.
Add one tablespoon water.

Bake

Bake in tarts with flaky crust.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

189Calories

2 gProtein

2 gFat

43 gCarbs

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
Cracker	5 saltine crackers (15g)	66
Grape	1/2 cup (76g)	62
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Water	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.

By Chicago. Bethany union church. Woman's society. [from old catalog]. 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. See the original page.

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.

Sugar + raisintop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together12,481 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Raisin + lemontop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,742 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Sugar + lemontop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together53,532 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Sugar and lemon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Sugar: Adds sweetness and helps balance the tartness of the lemon.
Seeded raisins: Provide chewy texture and concentrated sweetness to the filling.
Cracker: Absorbs liquid from the filling and helps it thicken.
Lemon: Adds acidity and bright aroma from the rind and juice.