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Oranged Strawberries

Strawberries topped with powdered sugar and orange juice, finished with pounded ice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and orange are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 19,212 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Oranged Strawberries

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Layer strawberries in a deep dish.

  2. Cover with powdered sugar, using alternate layers of berries and sugar as desired.

  3. Juice the oranges and pour over the strawberries.

Rest and serve

  1. Let stand for 1 hour.

  2. Just before serving, sprinkle with pounded ice.

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.

Explore the science

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. Sugar + orangetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together19,212 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

Sugar and orange barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 19,212 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Strawberries
Provide the main fruit body and flavor of the dish.
Powdered sugar
Sweetens the berries and draws out their juice as it sits.
Oranges
Add acidity and citrus aroma, and their juice mixes with the berry syrup.

The step that matters

Let stand for 1 hour. Sugar needs time to dissolve and draw juice out of the berries, creating syrup. Serving too early leaves the sugar gritty and the berries dry, so the standing time is what makes the dish.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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