Name: Sugared Oranges
Ingredients: one-half cup of powdered sugar; eight fine sweet oranges peeled; one-half cocoanut grated; six fine sweet oranges peeled

Why it works: Sugar and orange are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 19,212 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Sugared Oranges

Ingredients

one-half cup of powdered sugar
eight fine sweet oranges peeled
one-half cocoanut grated
six fine sweet oranges peeled

Directions

Take eight fine sweet oranges peeled and sliced, one-half cocoanut grated, one-half cup of powdered sugar.
Arrange the orange in a glass dish.
Scatter the cocoanut thickly over it and sprinkle lightly with sugar.
Cover with another layer of orange.
Fill up the dish in alternate layers.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

111Calories

1 gProtein

0 gFat

28 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 2 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Sweet Orange	1 medium (131g)	62
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Goff, May Perrin, [from old catalog] ed. 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.

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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.

Sugar + orangetop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together19,212 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

Sugar and orange barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 19,212 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

Oranges: Provide the main fruit body and juice that sweetens and moistens each layer.
Grated cocoanut: Adds a chewy texture and a toasty, tropical aroma between the orange layers.
Powdered sugar: Sweetens the fruit and draws out a little of its juice, softening the layers.

“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.