Name: Soft Fruits and Berries
Ingredients: 2 blackberries cherries currants gooseberries 1-2 grapes huckleberri; 2 grapes huckleberries peaches 1-2 plums raspberries strawberries

Why it works: Peach and plum match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 163 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Soft Fruits and Berries

Ingredients

2 blackberries cherries currants gooseberries 1-2 grapes huckleberri
2 grapes huckleberries peaches 1-2 plums raspberries strawberries

Directions

Apricots 1-2
Blackberries
Gooseberries 1-2
Huckleberries
Peaches 1-2
Raspberries
Strawberries
Fruits without sugar syrup
120 120 120 120 120 120 120
60 60 60 60 60 60 60
10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 12
146 "Win the War" Cook Book

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

413Calories

8 gProtein

3 gFat

100 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 7 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Cherry	1 cup (138g)	87
Raspberry	1 cup (123g)	64
Blackberry	1 cup (144g)	62
Grape	1/2 cup (76g)	62
Peach	1 medium (150g)	59
Strawberry	1 cup (152g)	49
Plum	1 medium (66g)	30

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

By Lynch, Reah Jeannette, comp. 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.

Peach + plumtop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together163 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Grape + plumtop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together238 recipes

Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).
Grape + peachtop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together218 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).
Currant + plumtop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together255 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).
Currant + peachtop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together88 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).