Name: Banana Gelatine
Ingredients: gelatine; orange juice or cranberry juice or lemon juice; bananas; whipped cream or sterilized cream

Why it works: Orange and banana are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,118 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Banana Gelatine

Ingredients

gelatine
orange juice or cranberry juice or lemon juice
bananas
whipped cream or sterilized cream

Directions

Prepare gelatine according to package instructions using orange juice, cranberry juice, or lemon juice.
When the gelatine is nearly cold, cut up the bananas and mix them with the gelatine.
Flavor the mixture as desired and set it on ice.
Serve with whipped cream or sterilized 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.

Orange + bananatop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,118 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Banana + creamtop 23% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,180 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Orange + creamtop 28% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together4,170 recipes

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