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Fruit Salad

Fruit salad with pineapple, oranges, bananas, grapes, peaches, orange juice, powdered sugar, Maraschino liqueur, brandy, ice, cream, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and banana match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 733 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Fruit Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Combine pineapple, oranges, bananas, grapes, and peaches in a bowl.

  2. In another bowl, squeeze the juice of 2 large oranges.

Make the syrup

  1. Add ½ pound of powdered sugar, ½ pint of Maraschino, and ⅓ cup of brandy to the orange juice.

  2. Stir in 3 tablespoons of cracked ice and mix well.

  3. Pour the mixture over the fruit.

Top and serve

  1. Beat 1 quart of fresh cream until stiff, then add sugar and ½ pint of Maraschino.

  2. Mix gently and place the cream high in the center of the fruit salad.

  3. Garnish with a few grapes.

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.

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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. Pineapple + bananatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together733 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Pineapple + peachtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together168 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Banana + peachtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together130 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Pineapple + grapetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together709 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  5. Banana + grapetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together496 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Fresh cream
Whipped to stiffness, it forms a light, airy topping that sits on the fruit.
Powdered sugar
Dissolves easily into the juice, adding sweetness to the liquid that coats the fruit.
Brandy
Adds a warm, aromatic note to the juice mixture.
Maraschino liqueur
Adds sweetness and a distinct cherry-like aroma to both the juice and the cream.
Oranges
Provide acidity and fresh juice that flavours and moistens the fruit.

The step that matters

Beat the cream until stiff. Cream must be beaten to the stiff stage to hold its shape on top of the fruit. Under-beaten cream stays runny and will sink into the juice, while over-beaten cream turns grainy and can separate.

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pineapple, banana, grape, peach, sugar, brandy, cream):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Apricotfits better
  3. Strawberryfits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pineapple, banana, grape, peach, sugar, brandy, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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.

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