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School Child's Lunch

A simple lunch for a school child, including a jam sandwich, fruit, cake or cookies, and candy or chocolate.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and chocolate work together. They rank in the top 23% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 289 recipes. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, fruity. The science ↓

School Child's Lunch

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare a jam or jelly sandwich and wrap it in waxed paper.

  2. Pack 1 apple or orange.

  3. Include 1 slice of cake or cookies.

  4. Add 2 or 3 pieces of candy or sweet chocolate.

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 + chocolatetop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together289 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

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

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