Name: Chocolate Raisins
Ingredients: large meaty raisins on the stem; grated chocolate

Why it works: Raisin and chocolate work together. They rank in the top 25% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 171 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Chocolate Raisins

Ingredients

large meaty raisins on the stem
grated chocolate

Directions

Prepare

Cut the raisins into smaller bunches and place them on one side of a small serving plate.
Place a generous spoonful of grated chocolate on the other side of the plate.

Serve

Pull a raisin from the stem and dip it into the chocolate, similar to dipping fresh berries in sugar.

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.

Raisin + chocolatetop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together171 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

What each ingredient does

Raisins: Provide the chewy, sweet fruit base that the chocolate coats.
Grated chocolate: Provides a sweet, rich coating that melts slightly against the fruit on contact.

“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.