Why it works: Crab and apple work together. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 343 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓
Crab Apples Pickled
Ingredients
Directions
Select bright red crab apples with stems.
Boil the apples whole until tender, being careful not to break their skins.
Boil the sweet pickle and pour it over the fruit.
Repeat the process for three consecutive days, boiling the pickle each time.
After the last boiling, fill the jars and seal them.
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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Crab + appletop 22% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together343 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
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