Why it works: Nuts and apple work together. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 237 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓
Cherry Salad
Ingredients
Directions
Remove the stones from the cherries and fill the centers with chopped marinated nuts.
Serve the cherries in apple shells or on lettuce leaves.
If using apple shells, place mayonnaise dressing in the bottom, add the cherries, and top with more dressing before serving.
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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Nuts + appletop 21% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together237 recipes
Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
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