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Apples with Olive Oil

Apples served with olive oil and nuts.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,335 recipes mention both. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, fruity. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

Contains: tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

  1. Peel the apple and cut it into eighths or sixteenths.

  2. Place the apple pieces in a sauce dish.

  3. Pour a few spoonfuls of olive oil over the apple.

  4. Serve with nuts for a delicious breakfast.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Apple + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,335 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  2. Olive + nutstop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together150 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  3. Apple + nutstop 15% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together237 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl decanoate (grape, waxy).

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

What each ingredient does

Apple
Provides the fresh, sweet-tart fruit base that the oil and nuts are served with.
Olive oil
Adds richness and a smooth fat coating to the apple pieces.

Flavor stand-ins for the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apple, olive):

  1. Peasbetter flavor fit
  2. Beansbetter flavor fit
  3. Chickpeabetter flavor fit
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apple, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

“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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