Name: Orange Salad
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon maraschino; oranges; wine

Why it works: Orange and wine are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,046 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Orange Salad

Ingredients

1 tablespoon maraschino
oranges
wine

Directions

Pare the oranges and slice them down instead of around.
Pour the maraschino and wine over the sliced oranges.
Let the mixture stand for two hours.

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 + winetop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,046 recipes

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

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What each ingredient does

Oranges: Provide the main body and juicy, sweet-tart flavor of the salad.
Maraschino: Adds a sweet, aromatic cherry-almond note that flavors the oranges.
Wine: Adds acidity and body to the liquid that soaks into the orange slices.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.