Why it works: Peach and pork work together. They rank in the top 23% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 100 recipes. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓
Fried Peaches
Ingredients
Directions
Wipe off the peaches that are not fully ripe.
Cut the peaches into thick slices.
Fry the peach slices in pork gravy.
Serve the fried peaches with slices of pork.
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 pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.
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Peach + porktop 23% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together100 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).
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