Name: Apples
Ingredients: apples; green leaves; carrot tops; celery tops

Why it works: Carrot and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,173 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Apples

Ingredients

apples
green leaves
carrot tops
celery tops

Directions

Wipe apples clean with a damp towel.
Arrange apples in a fruit basket.
Add sprigs of green leaves and tops of carrots or celery for decoration.

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.

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.

Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together10,173 recipes

Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).
Apple + celerytop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,155 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).
Apple + carrottop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together680 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).