Name: Frozen Oranges
Ingredients: 8 smooth oranges; Candied fruits (such as citron, angelica, raisins, orange peel); Maraschino liqueur; Orange ice; Salted ice

Why it works: Orange and angelica work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 159 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Frozen Oranges

Ingredients

Directions

Cut a 1-inch round hole in the stem side of each orange and remove the pulp with a teaspoon.
Soak the orange skins in cold water, then drain and scrape the insides smoothly without damaging the peel.
Chop the candied fruits into small pieces and soak them in maraschino.
Mix the soaked fruits with enough orange ice to fill the oranges.
Stuff each orange with the mixture and cover with the pieces you removed.
Place the oranges in a freezer and cover with salted ice for at least 2 hours before serving.
Serve each orange whole on a folded napkin.

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.

Orange + angelicatop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together159 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
Angelica + raisintop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together49 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Orange + raisintop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,684 recipes

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