Name: Fresh Fruit Sugared
Ingredients: large red currants; large white currants; cherries; 1 egg; powdered sugar

Why it works: Red currant and white currant share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4 recipes. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, pear. The science ↓

Fresh Fruit Sugared

Ingredients

Directions

Select beautiful stems of large red and white currants and fine bunches of cherries.
Beat the egg just enough to break it.
Dip the fruit in the egg, then coat it in powdered sugar.
Leave the fruit to dry on the shallow side of a sieve.

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.

Red currant + white curranttop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together4 recipes

Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).
Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together122,807 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Red currant + sugartop 26% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,156 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Red currant + eggtop 28% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together345 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
White currant + sugartop 29% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together59 recipes