Name: Tutti-frutti Sandwiches
Ingredients: ¼ pound crystallized cherries, chopped; ¼ pound crystallized peaches, chopped; ¼ pound crystallized apricots, chopped; 1 tablespoon wild-cherry liquor; buttered water-thin biscuits

Why it works: Peach and apricot 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 Sandwiches

Ingredients

¼ pound crystallized cherries, chopped
¼ pound crystallized peaches, chopped
¼ pound crystallized apricots, chopped
1 tablespoon wild-cherry liquor
buttered water-thin biscuits

Directions

Chop together the crystallized cherries, peaches, and apricots.
Wet the mixture with wild-cherry liquor.
Spread the fruit mixture between buttered water-thin biscuits.

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.

Peach + apricottop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together342 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Peach + cherrytop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together177 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Apricot + cherrytop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together252 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Cherry + biscuittop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together67 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Apricot + biscuittop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together109 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Crystallized cherries: Provide sweetness and chewy texture as the main filling fruit.
Crystallized peaches: Add sweetness and chewy texture along with a mild fruit flavor.
Crystallized apricots: Contribute sweetness, chewy texture and a bright fruit flavor to the filling.
Wild-cherry liquor: Moistens the chopped fruit and adds a concentrated cherry aroma.