Why it works: Nutmeg and melon work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 58 recipes. Both carry methyleugenol, which smells clove, spice. The science ↓
Nutmeg and Water Melons
Ingredients
Directions
Chill the watermelon and nutmeg melons on ice for several hours.
Wipe the watermelon and place it whole on a long dish for carving at the table.
Cut the nutmeg melons in half and remove the seeds.
Place a lump of ice in each half of the nutmeg melons.
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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Nutmeg + melontop 17% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together58 recipes
Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).
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