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Fruit Salad, Alice

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and grapefruit match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 233 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Fruit Salad, Alice

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Slice various kinds of fruit: bananas, oranges, grapefruit, apples, peaches, and pineapple.

  2. Layer the fruit alternately in a deep glass dish or salad bowl.

  3. Sprinkle each layer with powdered sugar, a little sherry, and half as much plain syrup.

  4. Chill the salad on ice for two hours.

  5. Just before serving, pour maraschino liqueur over the surface and decorate with maraschino cherries.

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. Orange + grapefruittop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together233 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Banana + pineappletop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together733 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Banana + appletop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together435 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

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

  5. Peach + pineappletop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together168 recipes

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

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

Swap the grapefruit

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (banana, orange, apple, peach, pineapple, sugar, sherry):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Apricotfits better
  3. Pearfits better
  4. Grapefruitthe original

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

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