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Apple, Orange and Peach Salad

A salad of diced apples, peaches, and oranges tossed with cream dressing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and peach match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 303 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Apple, Orange and Peach Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut apples, peaches, and oranges into cubes.

Assemble and serve

  1. Mix the fruit with cream dressing.

  2. Serve in apple shells or in the rind of the oranges.

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.

  1. Apple + peachtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together303 recipes

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

  2. Peach + orangetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together385 recipes

    Shared aroma: pinene (pine, turpentine).

  3. Apple + orangetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,230 recipes

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

  4. Peach + creamtop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together721 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. 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
Provide firm, crisp fruit pieces that hold their shape in the salad.
Peaches
Add soft, juicy fruit pieces and sweetness to the salad.
Oranges
Add bright, tangy juice and citrus flavor to the salad.
Cream dressing
Adds richness and moisture that coats the fruit pieces.

Swap the orange

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

  1. Apricotfits better
  2. Pearfits better
  3. Strawberryfits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apple, peach, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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