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Heavenly Hash

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Heavenly Hash

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine the diced oranges, bananas, candied cherries, blanched almonds, and pineapple in a glass dish.

  2. Soak the gelatine in cold water for 1 hour.

  3. Pour boiling water over the soaked gelatine and heat until dissolved.

  4. Remove from heat and set in ice water to cool.

  5. Once cool, add lemon juice, cherry wine, and juice from the fruit.

  6. Pour the mixture over the fruit in the glass dish.

  7. Refrigerate until set.

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 + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 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. Pineapple + cherrytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together537 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Almond + cherrytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together672 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Banana + cherrytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together187 recipes

    Shared aroma: n-butyl acetate (pear, banana).

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

Swap the almond

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (orange, banana, pineapple, sugar, lemon, cherry, wine):

  1. Almondthe original
  2. Pistachiofits about as well
  3. Chestnutfits about as well
  4. Chickpeafits less well

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

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