Name: Grape Pie
Ingredients: fresh grapes, washed and picked from the stem; 1 cup sugar; 1 cup flour; 2 tablespoons water; 2 teaspoons baking powder

Why it works: Sugar and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 92,116 recipes. Both carry phenylacetaldehyde, which smells hawthorne, honey. The science ↓

Grape Pie

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.

Fill a pie crust with fresh grapes.
Bake for 30 minutes at 350°F (175°C).
In a bowl, mix eggs, sugar, flour, water, and baking powder.
Pour the batter over the baked grapes.
Brown in the oven until golden.

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.

Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together92,116 recipes

Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).
Grape + flourtop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together4,482 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Grape + sugartop 23% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together7,490 recipes

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