Name: Mint Jelly
Ingredients: apples; pistachio (for coloring); mint leaves

Why it works: Pistachio and mint work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 65 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Mint Jelly

Ingredients

apples
pistachio (for coloring)
mint leaves

Directions

Boil the apple jelly.
Remove a portion and color it green with pistachio.
Add a few mint leaves and bring to a boil.
Skim out the mint leaves.
Pour the jelly into glasses to serve with mutton or roast.

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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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.

Pistachio + minttop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together65 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
Apple + pistachiotop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together83 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
Apple + minttop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together203 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).