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Grape Fruit

A chilled fruit salad of grapefruit, grapes, pineapple, banana, sherry, and cherries.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and banana match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 733 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Grape Fruit

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the grapefruit in half.

  2. Remove the juice and pulp from the grapefruit.

  3. Remove the center and segments from the grapefruit shells.

Make the fruit mixture

  1. In a bowl, combine the grapefruit pulp with small pieces of grapes, shredded pineapple, and diced banana.

  2. Sweeten the mixture to taste.

  3. Mix in sherry.

Fill and serve

  1. Fill the shells with the fruit mixture.

  2. Decorate with cherries.

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. Pineapple + bananatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together733 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Grape + pineappletop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together709 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  3. Grape + bananatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together496 recipes

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

  4. Grapefruit + pineappletop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together95 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  5. Pineapple + sherrytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together228 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Grapefruit
Provides the tart juice and pulp that forms the base of the fruit mixture and the serving shells.
Grapes
Add juicy texture and natural sweetness to the mixture.
Banana
Adds soft texture and mild sweetness to the mixture.
Pineapple
Adds bright, juicy flavor and texture to the mixture.
Sherry
Adds aromatic depth and a subtle sweetness to the fruit mixture.

Swap the grapefruit

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (grape, pineapple, banana, sherry):

  1. Strawberryfits better
  2. Applefits better
  3. Vanillafits better
  4. Grapefruitthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against grape, pineapple, banana, sherry. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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