Name: Puff-paste Sandwiches
Ingredients: puff pastry; chopped almonds; strawberry preserves; peach marmalade

Why it works: Strawberry and peach match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 228 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Puff-paste Sandwiches

Ingredients

puff pastry
chopped almonds
strawberry preserves
peach marmalade

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Roll the puff pastry very thin, about 1/8 inch.
Cut the rolled pastry into fanciful shapes.
Bake the shapes in a 400°F (200°C) oven until they are a delicate brown.
Mix chopped almonds with strawberry preserves or peach marmalade.
Spread the mixture between two pieces of baked pastry.

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.

Strawberry + peachtop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together228 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Almond + peachtop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together466 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Almond + strawberrytop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together433 recipes

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