Name: Grape Marmalade
Ingredients: 2 pounds seeded raisins; 3 cups granulated sugar; 1 pound English walnut meats

Why it works: Raisin and walnut work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 647 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Grape Marmalade

Ingredients

2 pounds seeded raisins
3 cups granulated sugar
1 pound English walnut meats

Directions

Remove seeds and skins from the grapes.
Cook the grapes with the raisins and walnuts for 20 minutes.
Stir constantly to ensure even cooking.

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.

Raisin + walnuttop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together647 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Raisin + sugartop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together12,481 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Walnut + meattop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,035 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Raisin + meattop 23% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together484 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Sugar + walnuttop 26% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together7,147 recipes

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