Name: Grape Fruit
Ingredients: Grapefruit; Powdered sugar; Grape juice

Why it works: Grapefruit and grape work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 79 recipes. Both carry 1-p-menthene-8-thiol, which smells grapefruit. The science ↓

Grape Fruit

Ingredients

Grapefruit
Powdered sugar
Grape juice

Directions

Cut the grapefruit in half and remove the hard pith and seeds.
Fill the cavity with powdered sugar.
Pour 1 tablespoon of grape juice over each half.
Allow to stand for 1 hour before serving.

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.

Grapefruit + grapetop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together79 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-p-menthene-8-thiol (grapefruit).
Sugar + grapetop 23% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together7,490 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Grapefruit + sugartop 26% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together309 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).