Name: Grape Fruit
Ingredients: grape fruit; 1 tablespoon sherry wine

Why it works: Grape and wine work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 819 recipes. Both carry 1-p-menthene-8-thiol, which smells grapefruit. The science ↓

Grape Fruit

Ingredients

grape fruit
1 tablespoon sherry wine

Directions

Prepare the grapefruit for serving.
Add 1 tablespoon of sherry wine to each portion.
Let stand in the refrigerator or a cold place.

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.

Grape + winetop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together819 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-p-menthene-8-thiol (grapefruit).
Grape + sherrytop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together229 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).
Sherry + winetop 32% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together0 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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What each ingredient does

Grapefruit (in the method): Provides the main fruit body, fresh flavor and juicy texture of the dish.
Sherry wine: Adds a mildly sweet, nutty aroma and a layer of flavor to the fruit.