Name: Granola Fruit Mush
Ingredients: 1 cup steamed seedless or seeded raisins or currants; equal parts grape or other fruit juice and water; granola; cream

Why it works: Raisin and grape work together. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 218 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Granola Fruit Mush

Ingredients

1 cup steamed seedless or seeded raisins or currants
equal parts grape or other fruit juice and water
granola
cream

Directions

Prepare granola mush as directed.
Stir in 1 cup of steamed raisins or currants.
Alternatively, heat equal parts fruit juice and water to boiling.
Thicken the mixture with granola.
Serve with cream.

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.

Raisin + grapetop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together218 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Raisin + creamtop 26% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,642 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).
Grape + creamtop 29% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,284 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).