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Mixed Fruit Salad

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Grape and peach match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 218 recipes. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓

Mixed Fruit Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare seasonal fruits by peeling and cutting them as needed.

  2. Mix the prepared fruit with the bottled or tinned grapes.

  3. Soak the fruit mixture in sweet dressing or syrup.

  4. Keep the salad on ice until ready to serve.

  5. Serve in a crystal dish and sprinkle with chopped coconut or cover with sweetened whipped cream if desired.

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. Grape + peachtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together218 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  2. Peach + coconuttop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together53 recipes

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

  3. Grape + coconuttop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together436 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Syrup + creamtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Coconut + creamtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,223 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 coconut

The recipe marks coconut as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (grape, peach, syrup, cream):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Apricotfits better
  3. Strawberryfits better
  4. Coconutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against grape, peach, syrup, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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