Name: Sliced Apples Baked in Cream
Ingredients: several apples; cream; well cooked oatmeal

Why it works: Apple and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 27% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,089 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Sliced Apples Baked in Cream

Ingredients

several apples
cream
well cooked oatmeal

Directions

Prepare

Pare, core, and slice the apples.

Bake and serve

Place the sliced apples in a baking dish and cover with cream.
Bake for 20 minutes.
For an alternative, cover the apples with well cooked oatmeal and bake for 20 minutes.
Serve with cream.

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.

Apple + creamtop 27% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together3,089 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

Apples: Soften as they bake and supply the fruity flavour that the dish is built around.
Cream: Covers the apples and enriches the dish, adding fat and richness as it bakes.
Well cooked oatmeal: Serves as an alternative topping in place of cream, adding body and a soft, starchy texture.

“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.