Name: Fancy Jellies
Ingredients: jelly (Champagne or sherry jelly); prepared cochineal (for coloring); whipped cream; strawberries or preserved fruits (cherries, grapes, peaches); lemon juice

Why it works: Champagne and grape work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 32 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Fancy Jellies

Ingredients

jelly (Champagne or sherry jelly)
prepared cochineal (for coloring)
whipped cream
strawberries or preserved fruits (cherries, grapes, peaches)
lemon juice

Directions

Pour half of the jelly into a mold and let it set.
Color the remaining jelly red with a few drops of prepared cochineal.
Carefully pour a layer of red jelly over the set jelly, then alternate layers until the mold is filled.
For a variation, fill the mold halfway with jelly, arrange a chain of firm blanc-mange cakes, and add the remaining jelly.
To make whipped jelly, whip set jelly in a bowl until full of air bubbles, then fill the mold and chill on ice.
To use leftover jelly, add lemon juice, beat until white, and pour into a mold to set again.

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.

Champagne + grapetop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together32 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).
Champagne + lemontop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together404 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Grape + lemontop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,412 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Champagne + creamtop 27% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together83 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).
Cream + grapetop 29% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,284 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).