Why it works: Apricot and peach match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 342 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓
Tutti Frutti
Ingredients
Directions
Pour 1 pint of brandy into a stone jar.
Add the various fruits as they come into market.
For each quart of fruit, add the same quantity of sugar.
Stir the mixture each morning until all the fruit has been added.
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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Apricot + peachtop 1% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together342 recipes
Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
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Apricot + pineappletop 2% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together377 recipes
Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
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Peach + pineappletop 3% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together168 recipes
Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
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Brandy + apricottop 8% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together513 recipes
Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
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Brandy + pineappletop 12% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together298 recipes
Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Brandy
- Acts as the liquid base, helping to preserve the fruit and draw out its flavour.
- Sugar
- Adds sweetness and helps draw juice from the fruit, mixing with the brandy into a syrup.
- Various fruits
- Provide the main flavour, colour and juice that blend with the brandy and sugar.
Swap the pineapple
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (brandy, apricot, peach, sugar):
- Vanillafits better
- Plumfits better
- Pearfits better
- Pineapplethe original
Fit is the average pairing score against brandy, apricot, peach, sugar. 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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