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Fresh Fruit for the Table

A guide to choosing, washing and serving raw fresh fruits such as apples, bananas, cherries, melons and berries.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Kellogg, E. E. (Ella Ervilla) · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and currant are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,034 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Fresh Fruit for the Table

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash cherries, grapes and currants by dipping them in and out of a pan of water until perfectly clean, then drain and dry before serving.

  2. Pare and dice pineapple, lightly sprinkle it with sugar, and just before serving add a cup of orange juice.

Combine and serve

  1. Slice oranges and mix them with well-ripened strawberries, using three oranges to a quart of berries.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

124Calories
2 gProtein
0 gFat
31 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 2 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62

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

By Kellogg, E. E. (Ella Ervilla). 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.

  1. Orange + curranttop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,034 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

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

What each ingredient does

Oranges
Add sweetness and acidity that brighten the flavour of the berries.
Orange juice
Adds moisture and bright citrus flavour to the pineapple just before serving.

“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.