Name: Ground Dried Prunes
Ingredients: dried prunes; rye nuts; cream; nuts; lettuce

Why it works: Rye and lettuce share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 23 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Ground Dried Prunes

Ingredients

Directions

Ground the dried prunes as you would figs.
Mix the ground prunes with rye nuts.
Serve with cream or alongside nuts and lettuce.

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.

Rye + lettucetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together23 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Nuts + lettucetop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together174 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).
Rye + nutstop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together32 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl decanoate (grape, waxy).
Nuts + creamtop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together886 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).
Rye + creamtop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together150 recipes

Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).