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Fbench Fbuit Sandwiches

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Plum and pineapple match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 147 recipes. Both carry 3-methyl-1-butanol, which smells fusel, malty. The science ↓

Fbench Fbuit Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Chop the fruit very fine, using a mixture of cherries, plums, pineapple, and angelica root.

  2. Moisten the chopped fruit with wine, orange juice, or lemon juice.

  3. If using bread, spread it lightly with butter.

  4. If using lady-fingers or cake, spread them very lightly with marmalade.

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. Plum + pineappletop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together147 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-methyl-1-butanol (fusel, malty).

  2. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Plum + winetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together343 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  4. Pineapple + angelicatop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together60 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  5. Pineapple + winetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together325 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

Swap the angelica

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (plum, pineapple, wine, bread, butter):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Clovefits better
  4. Angelicathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against plum, pineapple, wine, bread, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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