Why it works: Roselle and papaya share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 29% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓
Roselle Pie
Ingredients
Directions
Line a pie dish with the pie crust.
Fill the crust with stewed and sweetened roselle calyxes.
If desired, mix in papaya pulp.
Cover with the upper crust and bake.
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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Roselle + papayatop 29% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together1 recipe
Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
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