Why it works: Banana and sauce work together. They rank in the top 31% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 155 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓
Baked Bananas
Ingredients
Directions
The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.
Select small bananas.
Pull down a section of the skin and remove the coarse threads.
Cover with the skin and lay them in an agate pan.
Bake at 400°F (200°C) until the skins turn black.
Remove the pulp from the skin and cover with Sultana Sauce.
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.
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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 + saucetop 31% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together155 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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