Why it works: Raisin and nuts work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 490 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓
Raisin and Nut Sandwiches
Ingredients
Directions
Chop equal parts of raisins and nuts.
Mix in salad dressing.
Spread the mixture on bread.
Add a leaf of lettuce if desired.
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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Raisin + nutstop 10% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together490 recipes
Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
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Nuts + lettucetop 10% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together174 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).
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Raisin + lettucetop 14% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together29 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Swap the lettuce
The recipe marks lettuce as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (raisin, nuts):
- Arrowrootfits better
- Sweet potatofits about as well
- Lettucethe original
- Beetrootfits less well
Fit is the average pairing score against raisin, nuts. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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