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Fried Sweet Apples with Liver and Kidney

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Why it works: Apple and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,706 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Fried Sweet Apples with Liver and Kidney

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Slice the sweet apples.

  2. Prepare the liver and kidney by cleaning and cutting them into pieces.

  3. Heat butter or oil in a pan over medium heat.

  4. Add the liver and kidney to the pan and cook until browned.

  5. Add the sliced apples to the pan and fry until they are tender and slightly caramelized.

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.

  1. Apple + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,706 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Apple + livertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together93 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  3. Liver + buttertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,065 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

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