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Baked Apples

A baked apple dish filled with pecan meats and served with whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Meat and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 24% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,248 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Baked Apples

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. Pare and core the apples using a corer.

Bake

  1. Bake the apples for about 20 minutes without sugar.

  2. Sweeten the apples to taste and continue baking until thoroughly cooked.

Fill and serve

  1. Fill the centers of the apples with pecan meats.

  2. Serve ice cold with whipped cream.

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.

Explore the science

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.

  1. Meat + creamtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,248 recipes

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

  2. Apple + creamtop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,089 recipes

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

  3. Apple + meattop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together787 recipes

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

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Medium-sized apples
Soften during baking to form the tender, cooked body of the dish.
Pecan meats
Add crunch and a rich, fatty flavour to the filling in the cored centers.
Whipped cream
Adds cool, creamy richness that contrasts with the warm, cooked apple.

The step that matters

Sweeten the apples after the first bake. Sugar draws moisture out of fruit and can slow the softening of its cell walls. Adding it after the apples have started to cook helps them become fully tender rather than firm or watery.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, cream):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Vanillafits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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.

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