Name: Peach-and-almond Salad
Ingredients: ½ cup sliced almonds; 2 ½ cups sliced peaches

Why it works: Almond and peach match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 466 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Peach-and-almond Salad

Ingredients

½ cup sliced almonds
2 ½ cups sliced peaches

Directions

Blanch the almonds and cut them into thin slices.
Chill the peaches, then peel and slice them.
Combine the sliced peaches with one-fifth of the amount of sliced almonds.

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.

Almond + peachtop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together466 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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Peach-and-almond Salad