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Macedoine of Fruit

A fruit salad made with lemon jelly and assorted fruits.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and orange 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 ↓

Macedoine of Fruit

Ingredients

Directions

Set the base

  1. Set ½ inch of lemon jelly in the bottom of a mold.

Prepare the fruit

  1. Prepare the fruit by washing and cutting as needed.

Layer and set

  1. Add a layer of fruit into the mold and cover with jelly.

  2. Repeat layering fruit and jelly until the mold is filled.

  3. Once set, unmold and decorate with additional fruits or 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. Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

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

  2. Grape + bananatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together496 recipes

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

  3. Lemon + pistachiotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together431 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  4. Grape + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,771 recipes

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

  5. Banana + orangetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,118 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Lemon jelly
Sets into a firm, sliceable base that holds the fruit in layers.
White grapes
Provide juicy sweetness and a firm bite that contrasts with the soft jelly.
Bananas
Add sweetness and a soft, creamy texture to the layers.
Tangerine oranges
Add bright acidity and aroma along with segments of juicy fruit.

The step that matters

Layering and setting the jelly. Each jelly layer must be set enough to hold the next fruit layer without the fruit sinking or mixing. Adding warm jelly over fruit or unmolding before it fully sets can cause the layers to slide or collapse.

Swap the tangerine

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lemon, pistachio, grape, banana, orange):

  1. Figfits better
  2. Cherryfits better
  3. Limefits better
  4. Tangerinethe original

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

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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