Why it works: Olive and orange are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,456 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓
To Serve Olives
Ingredients
Directions
Serve olives in small dishes filled with pounded ice.
For orange baskets, cut an orange in half, leaving a ½ inch strip of skin for the handle.
Remove the pulp from the other half of the orange.
Trim the edges of the basket with scissors and tie a bright ribbon on the handle.
Fill the baskets with different colored jellies and garnish the dish with them.
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.
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Olive + orangetop 8% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together2,456 recipes
Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
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